CouchDB Input
The CouchDB Input step retrieves all documents from a view in a design document for a specified CouchDB database. The resulting
output is a single string-type field named JSON. The field contains a row for each received document. See the CouchDB guide for more information on CouchDB, design documents, and views.
Options
Enter the following information in the transformation step fields:
| Option | Description |
| Step Name | Specify the unique name of the CouchDB Input step on the canvas. You can customize the name or leave it as the default. |
| Host name or IP | Specify the host name for the connection to your database. |
| Port | Specify the port number for the connection to your database. |
| Database | Specify the name of the incoming database. |
| Design document | Identify the source design document. Design documents are a special type of CouchDB document that contains application code. See CouchDB Design Documents for more information. |
| View name | Identify the source CouchDB view. See CouchDB Views for more information. |
| Authentication user | Specify the username required to access the database. |
| Authentication password | Specify the password required to access the database. |
Metadata injection support
All fields of this step support metadata injection. You can use this step with ETL metadata injection to pass metadata to your transformation at runtime.