Class CouchdbResource

Constructor for a `CouchdbResource` object.

CouchdbResource represent an HTTP resource to CouchDB.

Parameters:

• uri - str, full uri to the server.

Overrides: object.__init__

Perform HTTP call to the couchdb server and manage
JSON conversions, support GET, POST, PUT and DELETE.

Usage example, get infos of a couchdb server on
http://127.0.0.1:5984 :


    import couchdbkit.CouchdbResource
    resource = couchdbkit.CouchdbResource()
    infos = resource.request('GET')

@param method: str, the HTTP action to be performed:
    'GET', 'HEAD', 'POST', 'PUT', or 'DELETE'
@param path: str or list, path to add to the uri
@param data: str or string or any object that could be
    converted to JSON.
@param headers: dict, optional headers that will
    be added to HTTP request.
@param raw: boolean, response return a Response object
@param params: Optional parameterss added to the request.
    Parameterss are for example the parameters for a view. See
    `CouchDB View API reference
    <http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/HTTP_view_API>`_ for example.

@return: tuple (data, resp), where resp is an `httplib2.Response`
    object and data a python object (often a dict).

Overrides: restkit.resource.Resource.request