The document ID can be specified by including the _id field in the JSON of the submitted record. The following request will create the same document with the ID FishStew:

POST http://couchdb:5984/recipes/
Content-Type: application/json

{
   "_id" : "FishStew",
   "servings" : 4,
   "subtitle" : "Delicious with fresh bread",
   "title" : "Fish Stew"
}

The structure of the submitted document is as shown in the table below:

In either case, the returned JSON will specify the document ID, revision ID, and status message:

{
   "id" : "FishStew",
   "ok" : true,
   "rev" : "1-9c65296036141e575d32ba9c034dd3ee"
}