[COUCHDB-904] No method to detect view server VM version

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.0
• Component/s: JavaScript View Server
• Skill Level: Regular Contributors Level (Easy to Medium)
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Paul Joseph Davis
• Created: 30/Sep/10 19:01
• Updated: 02/Sep/18 06:31
• Resolved: 02/Sep/18 06:31

Description

There's currently no way to tell what version of the view server is being used. Ie, the JS VM (Or Python, or Ruby, etc) that is being used. Just occurred to me it could be useful for debugging things that work one place and not another.

A proposed simple fix would be to have the view server protocol dictate that when a server boots up it spits out a line like:

{"version": OPAQUE_STRING}

that gets stored in a view_server_versions section in the config or some such.

Issue Links

• is related to: COUCHDB-1164 Pass CouchDB version to view server
• is related to: COUCHDB-1743 Make the view server & protocol faster