CouchDB Setup

Installation and configuration of the CouchDB database server is detailed at:

http://docs.couchdb.org/en/stable/

To use CouchDB with synthproxy, you need to create the design document stored in :file:`ddoc.json`. The design document has a single view, attrib_view that maps DNs to attribute-value pairs. It also performs reverse mapping for groupOfNames.

Documents in the CouchDB database are assumed to look like:

{
    "_id": "059300d482675550cf71a064330035bb",
    "dn": "cn=pumpkin,ou=people,dc=example,dc=org",
    "attrib": "memberOf",
    "order": 0,
    "value": "cn=xyzzy,ou=groups,dc=example,dc=org"
}

For multi-valued attributes, multiple documents should exist with the same dn and attrib. The order attribute is optional. If it is present, multi-valued attributes will be sorted by this field. The member attributes for computed groupOfNames are sorted by the values of the attributes.