Using nativescript couchbase plugin and sync gateway to read document changes from the server

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Hello

I’m working on a nativescript application using couchbase plugin and sync gateway.
I’ve been following these tutorials and they did work, but what I want to do for now is just an application that pulls the data from couchbase.

Using the previous example I can see the changes in my app when I insert something from the tutorial app, but when I insert something directly into the couchbase server it won’t read it. Even if I update or delete the documents inserted in the tutorial app, my application won’t see those changes.

Why is this happening? I have seen that when the tutorial app creates a document, couchbase server adds a _sync parameter to their JSON, but I’m still trying to figure out if that’s something relevant.

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What version of Couchbase Server and Sync Gateway are you using? There is a minimum requirement for having the functionality of being able to insert directly into Couchbase Server and having things sync. You need to have Couchbase Server 5.0+ and Sync Gateway 1.5+. If you cannot use this version, you will have to put your writes through the Sync Gateway REST API in order for them to sync.

More info here

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Thanks for the info.

I’m using couchbase server 5.1.1 and Sync Gateway 2.0.
After adding "import_docs": "continuous" to my JSON file , Sync Gateway recognizes when I insert a document, but if I try to update or delete a document it keeps the original data.
I also added "enable_shared_bucket_access":true , though I think it’s not necessary.

EDIT: I was speaking about manually updating/deleting the documents. It does work if I use N1QL queries.