# Exceptions in CouchDB river for \_design docs **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [October 4, 2010, 1:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exceptions-in-couchdb-river-for--design-docs/3404 "2010-10-04T13:46:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mahendra\_M](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mahendra_m/32/3128_2.png) [@Mahendra\_M](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mahendra_M)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2010, 1:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exceptions-in-couchdb-river-for--design-docs/3404/1 "2010-10-04T13:46:26Z")
Hi, I just noticed that there are some exceptions while indexing couchdb design docs (created with couchapp). The couchapp generated design docs are pretty complex. So, maybe there is a parse failure or in trying to determine the mapping. I don't have access to my setup now, but IIRC the steps are: - create an app using couchapp and push it to couchdb $ couchapp generate my\_app $ cd my\_app $ couchapp push . default - Configure the couch river plugin (without any filter). - The \_design/my\_app document generates an error. I will check this again in detail tomorrow and update the list. Regards, Mahendra [http://twitter.com/mahendra](http://twitter.com/mahendra) ---
**Author:** ![kimchy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kimchy/32/44952_2.png) [@kimchy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kimchy)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2010, 2:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exceptions-in-couchdb-river-for--design-docs/3404/2 "2010-10-04T14:11:12Z")
If you can, it would be great. I am not couchdb expert (actually, the first time I started it was to implement the river 😉 ). So, I need help from people who use couchdb to iron things out. If you can provide more information on the failure, then I can track it down. You mentioned in the wiki the design doc problem, is there a way that it can be detected that its a design document, so it won't be indexed? On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Mahendra M [mahendra.m@gmail.com](mailto:mahendra.m@gmail.com) wrote: > Hi, > > I just noticed that there are some exceptions while indexing couchdb > design docs (created with couchapp). > > The couchapp generated design docs are pretty complex. So, maybe there > is a parse failure or in trying to determine the mapping. > > I don't have access to my setup now, but IIRC the steps are: > > - create an app using couchapp and push it to couchdb > $ couchapp generate my\_app > $ cd my\_app > $ couchapp push . default > > - Configure the couch river plugin (without any filter). > > - The \_design/my\_app document generates an error. > > I will check this again in detail tomorrow and update the list. > > Regards, > Mahendra > > [http://twitter.com/mahendra](http://twitter.com/mahendra) ---
**Author:** ![Mahendra\_M](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mahendra_m/32/3128_2.png) [@Mahendra\_M](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mahendra_M)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2010, 6:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exceptions-in-couchdb-river-for--design-docs/3404/3 "2010-10-05T06:39:03Z")
Hi Shay, On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 7:41 PM, Shay Banon wrote: > If you can, it would be great. I am not couchdb expert Neither am I 🙂 > If you can provide more information on the failure, then I can > track it down. I noticed that this was happening for design docs with a lot map reduce functions and filters. The exception I was getting was: [0]: index [abcd], type [pqrs], id [\_design/abcd], message [ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException[10]] > You mentioned in the wiki the design doc problem, is there > a way that it can be detected that its > a design document, so it won't be indexed? As discussed in the other thread, '\_design/\*' can be used for filtering out design docs. Also, with the patch in Issue #406, this problem will not happen anymore. Regards, Mahendra > On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Mahendra M [mahendra.m@gmail.com](mailto:mahendra.m@gmail.com) wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I just noticed that there are some exceptions while indexing couchdb > > design docs (created with couchapp). > > > > The couchapp generated design docs are pretty complex. So, maybe there > > is a parse failure or in trying to determine the mapping. > > > > I don't have access to my setup now, but IIRC the steps are: > > > > - create an app using couchapp and push it to couchdb > > $ couchapp generate my\_app > > $ cd my\_app > > $ couchapp push . default > > > > - Configure the couch river plugin (without any filter). > > > > - The \_design/my\_app document generates an error. > > > > I will check this again in detail tomorrow and update the list. > > > > Regards, > > Mahendra > > > > [http://twitter.com/mahendra](http://twitter.com/mahendra) -- Mahendra [http://twitter.com/mahendra](http://twitter.com/mahendra) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 4:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exceptions-in-couchdb-river-for--design-docs/3404/4 "2017-07-06T04:18:26Z")
Closed on July 6, 2017, 4:18am UTC