Pouchdb: Passing custom HTTP headers during replication from local to remote DB

[kmckee]

I'm trying to find a way to pass custom HTTP headers with ajax requests when syncing between a local pouch instance and a remote.

As best I can tell from reading the docs and perusing the source, it looks like you're able to do this if you're using pouch as a proxy to a remote, like this...

This works

var db = new PouchDB('http://foo.io/db/', {
    ajax: { headers: { authorization: authenticationToken.get() } }
});

but, I'm not able to do the same if I'm creating a local database and syncing to a remote...

This ignores my header

var db = new PouchDB('MyLocalDb');
PouchDB.replicate('MyLocalDb', 'http://foo.io/db/', {
    live: true,
    ajax: { headers: { authorization: authenticationToken.get() } }
});

Am I overlooking something or is this not currently possible?

Thanks for your help, and thanks for making such an awesome open source project. :)

[daleharvey]

To specify options for the remote databases you can do

var db = new PouchDB('MyLocalDb');
var remote = new PouchDB('http://foo.io/db/', {
    ajax: { headers: { authorization: authenticationToken.get() } }
});
db.replicate.to(remote, {live: true});

Any other questions feel free :) Thanks

[kmckee]

Oh man, totally obvious now.

Thanks so much!

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On Feb 27, 2016, at 1:21 PM, Dale Harvey [email protected] wrote:

To specify options for the remote databases you can do

var db = new PouchDB('MyLocalDb');
var remote = new PouchDB('http://foo.io/db/', {
ajax: { headers: { authorization: authenticationToken.get() } }
});
db.replicate.to(remote, {live: true});
Any other questions feel free :) Thanks

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[kmckee]

After digging in a little more, I noticed that the headers still weren't being passed. I figured out why, and I just want to share it here in case anyone else stumbles upon it in the future.

The key line in the docs that I didn't notice is this:

_The remoteDB can either be a string or a PouchDB object_. If you have special ajax options on a remote database, you will want to use PouchDB objects instead of strings, so that the options are used.

I was passing the ajax headers into my local pouch instance when I created it, but when adding syncs I was passing the local db name rather than the PouchDb instance itself, so they were ignored.

Thanks again for the help.