| Method | GET /db/_design/design-doc/_info | |
| Request | None | |
| Response | JSON of the design document information | |
| Admin Privileges Required | no | |
Obtains information about a given design document, including the index, index size and current status of the design document and associated index information.
For example, to get the information for the
recipes design document:
GET http://couchdb:5984/recipes/_design/recipes/_info Content-Type: application/json
This returns the following JSON structure:
{
"name" : "recipes"
"view_index" : {
"compact_running" : false,
"updater_running" : false,
"language" : "javascript",
"purge_seq" : 10,
"waiting_commit" : false,
"waiting_clients" : 0,
"signature" : "fc65594ee76087a3b8c726caf5b40687",
"update_seq" : 375031,
"disk_size" : 16491
},
}The individual fields in the returned JSON structure are detailed in Table 8.3, “Design Document Info JSON Contents”.
Table 8.3. Design Document Info JSON Contents
| Field | Description |
name | Name/ID of Design Document |
view_index | View Index |
compact_running | Indicates whether a compaction routine is currently running on the view |
disk_size | Size in bytes of the view as stored on disk |
language | Language for the defined views |
purge_seq | The purge sequence that has been processed |
signature | MD5 signature of the views for the design document |
update_seq | The update sequence of the corresponding database that has been indexed |
updater_running | Indicates if the view is currently being updated |
waiting_clients | Number of clients waiting on views from this design document |
waiting_commit | Indicates if there are outstanding commits to the underlying database that need to processed |