[COUCHDB-1431] DDoc name with underscore as first char produce invalid filters

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 1.2, 1.3
• Component/s: Database Core

Environment

Apache CouchDB 1.3.0a-5cece68-git
Apache CouchDB 1.2.0a-0d8ddc8-git

• Skill Level: New Contributors Level (Easy)
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Alexander Shorin
• Created: 07/Mar/12 05:23
• Updated: 02/Sep/18 06:36
• Resolved: 02/Sep/18 06:36

Description

CouchDB allows to create design document with id as `_design/_private`, but there is no way to use filters from it:

$ curl -v http://localhost:5984/test/_changes?filter=_private/confidential

• About to connect() to localhost port 5984 (#0)
• Trying 127.0.0.1...
• connected
• Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1) port 5984 (#0)
  > GET /test/_changes?filter=_private/confidential HTTP/1.1
  > User-Agent: curl/7.24.0 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.24.0 GnuTLS/2.10.5 zlib/1.2.5
  > Host: localhost:5984
  > Accept: /
  >
  < HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
  < Server: CouchDB/1.3.0a-5cece68-git (Erlang OTP/R14B04)
  < Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2012 04:51:06 GMT
  < Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
  < Content-Length: 63
  < Cache-Control: must-revalidate
  < {"error":"bad_request","reason":"unknown builtin filter name"}
• Connection #0 to host localhost left intact
• Closing connection #0