Kitura-CouchDB is a pure Swift client which allows Kitura applications to interact with a CouchDB database.

Add the Kitura-CouchDB package to the dependencies within your application’s Package.swift file. Substitute "x.x.x" with the latest Kitura-CouchDB release.

.package(url: "https://github.com/IBM-Swift/Kitura-CouchDB.git", from: "x.x.x")

Add CouchDB to your target's dependencies:

.target(name: "example", dependencies: ["CouchDB"]),

import CouchDB

The CouchDBSample executable demonstrates how to create, read, update and delete documents within a CouchDB database in Swift.

1. Download CouchDB and install.

2. Set up an admin username and password in CouchDB.

3. Create a database with the name kitura_test_db.

4. Clone this repository:

   git clone https://github.com/IBM-Swift/Kitura-CouchDB.git

5. Update the following code in Sources\CouchDBSample\main.swift with your admin username and password (the host will default to 127.0.0.1 and the port will default to 5984):

   let connProperties = ConnectionProperties(
       host: host,         // httpd address
       port: port,         // httpd port
       secured: secured,   // https or http
       username: nil,      // admin username
       password: nil       // admin password
   )

6. Open a Terminal window, change into the Kitura-CouchDB folder and run swift build:

   swift build

7. Run the CouchDBSample executable:

   .build/debug/CouchDBSample

   You will see informational messages such as "Successfully created the following JSON document in CouchDB:" for each of the operations (create, read, update and delete) performed on the kitura_test_db database.

For a more comprehensive example, you can follow the Kitura tutorial Getting Started with Server-side Swift on raywenderlich.com that shows you how to create a backend API and then link this to a CouchDB instance running on your local machine.

For more information visit our API reference.

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This library is licensed under Apache 2.0. Full license text is available in LICENSE.