[jira] [Created] (COUCHDB-2583) ensure_full_commit requires empty but typed content or it will unexpectedly drops the connection

["Samuel Tardieu (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Samuel Tardieu created COUCHDB-2583:
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             Summary: ensure_full_commit requires empty but typed content or it will unexpectedly drops the connection
                 Key: COUCHDB-2583
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-2583
             Project: CouchDB
          Issue Type: Bug
      Security Level: public (Regular issues)
          Components: HTTP Interface
            Reporter: Samuel Tardieu


When given an non-empty (but valid) JSON content, some methods such as {{_ensure_full_commit}} will abruptly drop a persistent connection instead of waiting for a new HTTP request even though no error is signaled in CouchDB logs:

{code:title=Request}
POST /testdb1/_ensure_full_commit HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:5984
Accept: application/json
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 2

{}
{code}

{code:title=Response}
HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Server: CouchDB/1.6.1 (Erlang OTP/17)
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2015 11:49:11 GMT
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 53
Cache-Control: must-revalidate

{"ok":true,"instance_start_time":"1424085277160411"}
{code}
[connection is closed without warning by CouchDB at this point]

To remedy that, one could try to give an empty content, but some frameworks (such as spray.io) will systematically omit the {{Content-Type}} header in this case since it makes little sense to type empty content. However, CouchDB will reject the request even though it does *not* want any content:

{code:title=Request}
POST /testdb1/_ensure_full_commit HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:5984
Accept: application/json
Content-Length: 0
{code}

{code:title=Response}
HTTP/1.1 415 Unsupported Media Type
Server: CouchDB/1.6.1 (Erlang OTP/17)
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2015 11:55:52 GMT
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 78
Cache-Control: must-revalidate

{"error":"bad_content_type","reason":"Content-Type must be application/json"}
{code}

This makes it impossible to use those methods with such frameworks. CouchDB should not drop the connection and ignore the data if {{Content-Length}} is not 0, nor require that data be typed with {{application/json}} if it is going to ignore it anyway or if it requires it to be empty.




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