Problems with Sync Gateway

Mobile Sync Gateway
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Hi all,

I have several problems about the sync gateway,

(1). I have an existing server with Postgre SQL database, basically I have more than hundreds of user account details (apart from other data) stored in the database (username and password etc). Now I want to migrate to CouchBase server and Sync Gateway (because I have a Android mobile app to replicate data), keeping my existing server as it is. So that means I need to create or transfer those users to Sync Gateway. How do I re-create or transfer user details to SGW? Surely I cannot use “CURL” command because I do not know passwords of each user (since they are encrypted).

Say, if I was able to complete Q1, then,

(2). Is there a way to be ensured about the consistency of data (user account details) between my existing Posgre SQL database and new Sync Gateway database (CouchBase server) ? Which means, if a new user registered to my existing server, new user account details will be stored in the Postgre SQL database, those details should be immediately replicated back to SGW, that is; the user should be created in the SGW also. Is there a way to do that? using Admin REST API or whatever?

(3). In the Sync function, I can route data using channels by assigning different documents to channels based on their “type” property. To that I need to have several if-else-if-else blocks. Say if there are a large number of “document types” . So I need to have a very long and lengthy sync function. This sounds too complicated to me. Is there any way to make this simple, how to manage large number of document types? What if I want to create new document types at run time in both client and server applications? how these new types are handled in sync function?

Anyone please answer me?

Thanks
-Isuru

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For #1 and #2, you might want to consider custom authentication using your existing server:
http://developer.couchbase.com/mobile/develop/guides/sync-gateway/administering-sync-gateway/authenticating-users/index.html#custom--indirect--authentication

For #3 - if you need custom processing logic for each document type, I don’t think you can get away from an if/else condition to trigger that code. If you’re simply doing channeling based on a type property, though, you could just use the type name as the channel name - something like channel(doc.type). Channels don’t require explicit creation - they are created when a document is channeled to it - so there’s no issue adding new channels dynamically. You can review http://developer.couchbase.com/mobile/develop/guides/sync-gateway/channels/developing/index.html for some additional background on that topic.

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Thanks adam,

But even for Custom Authentication, user accounts has to be created in the sync gateway beforehand, no?

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The custom authentication flow has a step to create users via the admin API as needed. These users are created with a random secure password, which doesn’t need to be used (or known) during subsequent session creation.

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Yeah. now I get it. that is the answer for my question. Again thank you for fast responding.:slight_smile: