timed view update

Cron job to update views hourly

Python script

The following python script will update all design documents in the specified CouchDB database

#!/usr/bin/env python
import couchdb
import json
import urllib2
import threading
import time
import sys
def updateView(designDoc,database):
    try:
        viewName = "{0}/_view/{1}".format(designDoc.id,designDoc.doc['views'].keys()[0])
        print(viewName)
        print(len(database.view(viewName,limit=1)))
    except Exception as ex: 
        print ex.message    
def updateDatabaseViews(databaseURL):
    try:
        database = couchdb.Database(databaseURL)
        designDocs = database.view('_all_docs',include_docs=True,
                                                        startkey='_design%2F',endkey='_design0')
        for designDoc in designDocs:                        
            if designDoc.doc.has_key('views') and len(designDoc.doc['views']) > 0:
                db = couchdb.Database(databaseURL)
                t = threading.Thread(target=updateView,args=(designDoc,db))
                t.start()
    except Exception as e:
        print e.message
def main():
    updateDatabaseViews('http://localhost:5984/resource_data')
    while threading.active_count() > 1:
        sys.stdout.flush()
        time.sleep(1)
if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

Cron Job

To Run the above script as a crob job run

sudo crontab -e

and add

@hourly /path/to/script.py