Support for starting continuous replication with optional keyword args.

atomatt · atomatt · commit 59c701874f2e · 2009-12-08T21:19:38.000Z
diff --git a/couchdb/client.py b/couchdb/client.py
@@ -209,13 +209,15 @@ def delete(self, name):
         """
         del self[name]
 
-    def replicate(self, source, target):
+    def replicate(self, source, target, **options):
         """Replicate changes from the source database to the target database.
 
         :param source: URL of the source database
         :param target: URL of the target database
+        :param options: optional replication args, e.g. continuous=True
         """
         data = {'source': source, 'target': target}
+        data.update(options)
         resp, data = self.resource.post('/_replicate', data)
         return data
 
diff --git a/couchdb/tests/client.py b/couchdb/tests/client.py
@@ -68,6 +68,13 @@ def test_replicate(self):
                               'python-tests')
         self.assertEquals(b[id]['test'], 'b')
 
+    def test_replicate_continuous(self):
+        a = self.server.create('python-tests')
+        b = self.server.create('python-tests-a')
+        result = self.server.replicate('python-tests', 'python-tests-a', continuous=True)
+        self.assertEquals(result['ok'], True)
+        self.assertTrue('_local_id' in result)
+
 class DatabaseTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
 
     def setUp(self):
