Attachment improvements

Improvements to the main Kivik library

• New kivik.Attachments type and improvements to the kivik.Attachment type, to support JSON marshaling and unmarshaling. This makes it possible to embed a map of kivik.Attachments directly in a document when storing such as Put, or when unmarshaling with such as with ScanDoc.
• Added import comments to kivik and all sub-packages, in preparation for renaming the package. Not a functional change.

Driver improvements

In conjunction with this new release of the core Kivik library, updates to the CouchDB and PouchDB drivers have also been published:

CouchDB Driver v1.7.0

• It is now possible to set a custom HTTP transport for the underlying HTTP connection. This allows for providing custom TLS configuration, proxy configuration, etc.

PouchDB Driver v1.3.3

• Reduced the size of the generated JS by not importing the net/http package. This is not a functional change.

Adds support for options to several new methods

The following methods now take an optional kivik.Options argument as the final argument:

• DB.CreateDoc()
• DB.Put()
• DB.Delete()
• DB.PutAttachment()
• DB.DeleteAttachment()
• DB.GetAttachmentMeta()
• DB.GetAttachment()

Full support for CouchDB 2.1.1 and 1.7.1

This release reflects mostly a change in testing, to test against the latest CouchDB releases, but with one minor enhancement: The addition of of the Bookmark() method on the Rows type, which exposes the bookmark value returned by _find queries.

New error codes

This release adds some new 600-level error codes used for non-HTTP error statuses.

Remove server mode

The server has been moved to its own package github.com/go-kivik/kivikd, to reduce the dependency graph for the main kivik package.

Nothing to see here

Code reorganization, improved build process, fewer dependencies.

Add Features field to Version struct

This is to support the new features field returned by CouchDB 2.1.

A few other minor changes were made to support CouchDB 2.1, mostly to the build process.

Adds support for options to the BulkDocs() method

This is a very minor release, but I've bumped the minor version due to a minor compatibility change with the drivers interface. See PR #209 for more details. Use of BulkDocs() requires v1.3.0 of either the couchdb driver or pouchdb.

Functional changes:

• It is now possible to pass options to the BulkDocs() method. Fixes #208

Minor changes:

• Minor changes to the build process
• Removed the dependency on the github.com/justinas/alice package in the server mode.

Query Plans

This release adds the Explain method to return Find query plans.

New EndKeySuffix symbol

The new EndKeySuffix constant represents a high Unicode character (0xfff0) useful for appending to an endkey argument, when doing a ranged search, as described here: http://couchdb.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ddocs/views/collation.html#string-ranges