couchdb - import json file to couch db-

Question

If I have a json file that looks something like this:

{"name":"bob","hi":"hello"}
{"name":"hello","hi":"bye"}

Is there an option to import this into couchdb?

Answer 1

Starting from @Millhouse answer but with multiple docs in my file I used

cat myFile.json | lwp-request -m POST -sS "http://localhost/dbname/_bulk_docs" -c "application/json" 

POST is an alias of lwp-request but POST doesn't seem to work on debian. If you use lwp-request you need to set the method with -m as above.

The trailing _bulk_docs allows multiple documents to be uploaded at once.

http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/HTTP_Bulk_Document_API