Couchbase C Client  3.2.3
Asynchronous C Client for Couchbase
cbc-subdoc(1) - Interactively Inspect Document Using Subdocument API

SYNOPSIS

cbc-subdoc [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION

cbc-subdoc runs an interactive shell with commands from subdocument API.

OPTIONS

Options may be read either from the command line, or from a configuration file (see cbcrc(4)):

The following options control workload generation:

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ADDITIONAL OPTIONS

The following options may be included in the connection string (via the -U option) as URI-style query params (e.g. couchbase://host/bucket?option1=value1&option2=value2) or as individual key=value pairs passed to the -D switch (e.g. -Doption1=value1 -Doption2=value). The -D will internally build the connection string, and is provided as a convenience for options to be easily passed on the command-line

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COMMANDS

help

Show list of accessible commands with short help.

LOOKUP COMMANDS

The following options are supported for lookup commands:

  • -?, --help: Display built-in help
  • -p, --path PATH: JSON path in the document. Read more about paths in the documentation.
  • -x, --xattr PATH: JSON path in the extended attributes.
  • -d, --deleted Access XATTR attributes of deleted documents.

get

get [OPTIONS...] KEY...

Retrieve path from the item on the server.

This command requires that at least one key passed to it. If no paths are specified, it will fetch full document.

exists

exists [OPTIONS...] KEY...

Check if path exists in the item on the server.

This command requires that at least one key and one path are passed to it. Command has alias exist.

size

size [OPTIONS...] KEY...

Count the number of elements in an array or dictionary. The command has alias get-count.

This command requires that at least one key and one path passed to it.

MUTATION COMMANDS

The mutation commands below support the following options:

  • -x, --xattr PATH=VALUE: Store XATTR path (exentnded attributes).
  • -p, --path PATH=VALUE: JSON path in the document. Read more about paths in the documentation.
  • -e, --expiry TIME: Expiration time in seconds. Relative (up to 30 days) or absolute (as Unix timestamp).
  • -i, --intermediates: Create intermediate paths [Default=FALSE].
  • -u, --upsert: Create document if it does not exist [Default=FALSE].

replace

replace [OPTIONS...] KEY...

Replace the value at the specified path.

dict-add

dict-add [OPTIONS...] KEY...

Add the value at the given path, if the given path does not exist.

dict-upsert

dict-upsert [OPTIONS...] KEY...

Unconditionally set the value at the path.

array-add-first

array-add-first [OPTIONS...] KEY...

Prepend the value(s) to the array. All array operations may accept multiple objects. See examples below.

array-add-last

array-add-last [OPTIONS...] KEY...

Append the value(s) to the array.

array-add-unique

array-add-unique [OPTIONS...] KEY...

Add the value to the array indicated by the path, if the value is not already in the array.

array-insert

array-insert [OPTIONS...] KEY...

Add the value at the given array index. Path must include index, e.g. my.list[4]

counter

Increment or decrement an existing numeric path. The value must be 64-bit integer.

set

set [OPTIONS...] KEY VALUE

Store document on the server.

This command requires exactly two argument, key and value. Command has alias upsert. If no XATTR specified, the command will add its version to the path _cbc.version.

  • -x, --xattr PATH=VALUE: Store XATTR path (exentnded attributes)
  • -e, --expiry TIME: Expiration time in seconds. Relative (up to 30 days) or absolute (as Unix timestamp)

remove

remove [OPTIONS...] KEY...

Remove path in the item on the server.

This command requires at least one key. If no paths specified, it will remove whole document.

  • -p, --path PATH: JSON path in the document. Read more about paths in the documentation.
  • -x, --xattr PATH: JSON path in the extended attributes.

EXAMPLES

Connect to the server and wait for commands:

cbc subdoc -u Administrator -P password -U couchbase://192.168.33.101/a_bucket
subdoc>

Create new document foo with empty JSON document:

subdoc> upsert foo {}
foo                  CAS=0x14d766f19a720000

Fetch document with virtual XATTR, containing its metadata:

subdoc> get -x $document foo
foo                  CAS=0x14d766f19a720000
0. Size=194, RC=0x00 Success (Not an error)
{"CAS":"0x14d766f19a720000","vbucket_uuid":"0x0000ef56295d9206",
"seqno":"0x0000000000000021","exptime":0,"value_bytes":2,
"datatype":["json","xattr"],"deleted":false,"last_modified":"1501782188"}
1. Size=2, RC=0x00 Success (Not an error)
{}

Increment counter with path site.hits twice and set document expiration to 5 seconds. Note that it sends -i option to create site JSON object automatically:

subdoc> counter -e 5 -i -p site.hits=1 foo
foo                  CAS=0x14d76764f3b60000
0. Size=1, RC=0x00 Success (Not an error)
1
subdoc> counter -e 5 -p site.hits=1 foo
foo                  CAS=0x14d76765ea2b0000
0. Size=1, RC=0x00 Success (Not an error)
2
subdoc> get foo
foo                  CAS=0x14d76765ea2b0000
0. Size=19, RC=0x00 Success (Not an error)
{"site":{"hits":2}}

... wait for 5 seconds ...

subdoc> get foo
foo                  The key does not exist on the server (0xd)

Add into array at path ratings value 5. Note, that switch -u will ask server to create the document if it does not exist:

subdoc> array-add-first -u -p ratings=5 foo
foo                  CAS=0x14d76814fbb00000
0. Size=0, RC=0x00 Success (Not an error)
subdoc> get foo
foo                  CAS=0x14d76814fbb00000
0. Size=15, RC=0x00 Success (Not an error)
{"ratings":[5]}

Add several objects at once into ratings array:

subdoc> array-add-last -p ratings=4,6,7 foo
foo                  CAS=0x14d7687097c50000
0. Size=0, RC=0x00 Success (Not an error)
subdoc> get foo
foo                  CAS=0x14d7687097c50000
0. Size=21, RC=0x00 Success (Not an error)
{"ratings":[5,4,6,7]}

Remove rating with index 2 in array (third number):

subdoc> remove -p ratings[2] foo
foo                  CAS=0x14d76885efd90000
0. Size=0, RC=0x00 Success (Not an error)
subdoc> get foo
foo                  CAS=0x14d76885efd90000
0. Size=19, RC=0x00 Success (Not an error)
{"ratings":[5,4,7]}

Insert new rating instead of removed one:

subdoc> array-insert -p ratings[2]=10 foo
foo                  CAS=0x14d768a6daee0000
0. Size=0, RC=0x00 Success (Not an error)
subdoc> get foo
foo                  CAS=0x14d768a6daee0000
0. Size=22, RC=0x00 Success (Not an error)
{"ratings":[5,4,10,7]}

Fetch number of the items in the ratings array:

subdoc> size -p ratings foo
foo                  CAS=0x14d768a6daee0000
0. Size=1, RC=0x00 Success (Not an error)
4

Create document with spaces (surround the value with single quotes, and escape inner single quotes with backslash \):

subdoc> upsert bar '{"text": "hello world"}'
bar                  CAS=0x14d768bc25270000
subdoc> get bar
bar                  CAS=0x14d768bc25270000
0. Size=23, RC=0x00 Success (Not an error)
{"text": "hello world"}

TODO

Port tool to Windows platform. Currently linenoise only supports UNIX-like systems, but there are unofficial patches for Windows.

INTERFACE STABILITY

This command's options should be considered uncommitted and are subject to change.

SEE ALSO

cbc(1), cbcrc(4), https://developer.couchbase.com/documentation/server/current/developer-guide/sub-doc-api.html

HISTORY

The cbc-subdoc tool was first introduced in libcouchbase 2.7.7.