11. API Reference

The components of the API URL path help determine the part of the CouchDBserver that is being accessed. The result is the structure of the URL requestboth identifies and effectively describes the area of the database you areaccessing.

As with all URLs, the individual components are separated by a forward slash.

As a general rule, URL components and JSON fields starting with the _(underscore) character represent a special component or entity within theserver or returned object. For example, the URL fragment /_all_dbs gets alist of all of the databases in a CouchDB instance.

This reference is structured according to the URL structure, as below.

原文: http://docs.couchdb.org/en/stable/api/index.html