[COUCHDB-3362] DELETE attachment on non-existing document creates the document, rather than returning 404

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.0, 1.6.1
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Jonathan Hall
• Created: 06/Apr/17 03:26
• Updated: 02/Sep/18 07:06
• Resolved: 02/Sep/18 07:06

Description

To reproduce:

Create an emtpy database:
curl -v -X PUT http://admin:abc123@localhost:6001/new

Then try to delete an attachment from a (non-existant) document:
curl -v -X DELETE http://admin:abc123@localhost:6001/new/foo/foo.txt

The result is that the document "foo" is created:

{"ok":true,"id":"foo","rev":"1-967a00dff5e02add41819138abb3284d"}

Expected:

404 error, as per the docs: http://docs.couchdb.org/en/2.0.0/api/document/attachments.html#delete--db-docid-attname

Observed in both CouchDB 1.6.1 and 2.0.0