Inter-Sync Gateway Replication Configuration
Using Sync Gateway’s Admin REST API to configure and manage inter-Sync Gateway replications
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Pre-3.0 Legacy Configuration Equivalents
This content describes configuration for Sync Gateway 3.0 and higher — for legacy configuration, see: Legacy Pre-3.0 Configuration |
Introduction
Sync Gateway 3.0 and later uses the Admin REST API to provision persistent configuration changes. This page introduces the Add or Update a Replication endpoint for convenience — see Replication for a full description of the endpoints available.
Upsert a replication
PUT /{db}/_replication/{replicationid}
Description
Create or update a replication in the database.
The replication ID does not need to be set in the request body.
If an existing replication is being updated, that replication must be stopped first and, if the replication_id
is specified in the request body, it must match the replication ID in the URI.
Required Sync Gateway RBAC roles:
- Sync Gateway Replicator
-
application/json
-
application/json
Parameters
Path Parameters
Name | Description | Schema |
---|---|---|
db |
The name of the database to run the operation against. |
String |
replicationid |
What replication to target based on its replication ID. |
String |
Example
-
Curl
-
HTTP
curl --___location --request PUT 'http://localhost:4985/db1-local/_replication/db1-rep-id1 '\
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
"direction": "push",
"purge_on_removal": false,
"remote": "http://user1:password1@example.com:4984/db1-remote",
"filter":"sync_gateway/bychannel",
"query_params": {
"channels":["channel.user1"]
},
"continuous": false
}'
PUT /db1-local/_replication/db1-rep-id1 HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:4985
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 235
{"direction": "push",
"purge_on_removal":false,
"remote": "http://user1:password1@example.com:4984/db1-remote",
"filter":"sync_gateway/bychannel",
"query_params": {
"channels":["channel.user1"]
},
"continuous": false
}
Schema
This section shows Sync Gateway’s replication configuration settings in schema format for convenience in constructing JSON models for use in the Admin REST API.
The configuration settings described here are provisioned through the Replication endpoints.
{ adhoc: false, batch_size: 200, collections_enabled: false, collections_local: ["string"...], collections_remote: ["string"...], conflict_resolution_type: "default", continuous: false, custom_conflict_resolver: "", direction: "string", enable_delta_sync: false, filter: "string", initial_state: "running", max_backoff_time: 5, purge_on_removal: false, query_params: ["string"...], remote: "string", remote_password: "string", remote_username: "string", replication_id: "string", run_as: "string" }
adhoc
- Type
-
boolean
- Description
-
Set to true to run the replication as an adhoc replication instead of a persistent one.
This means that the replication will only last the period of the replication until the status is changed to
stopped
and then it will be removed automatically. It will also be removed if Sync Gateway restarts or if removed due to user action.
batch_size
- Type
-
integer
- Default
-
200
- Description
-
The amount of changes to be sent in one batch of replications. Changing this is an Enterprise Edition only feature.
collections_enabled
- Type
-
boolean
- Description
-
If true, the replicator will run with collections, and will replicate all collections, unless otherwise limited by
collections_local
.If false, the replicator will only replicate the default collection.
collections_local
- Type
-
array
- Description
-
Limits the set of collections replicated to those listed in this array.
The replication will use all collections defined on the database if this list is empty.
collections_remote
- Type
-
array
- Description
-
Remaps the local collection name to the one specified in this array when replicating with the remote.
If only a subset of collections need remapping, elements in this array can be specified as
null
to preserve the local collection name.The same index is used for both
collections_remote
andcollections_local
, and both arrays must be the same length.
conflict_resolution_type
- Type
-
string
- Default
-
default
- Description
-
This defines what conflict resolution policy Sync Gateway should use to apply when resolving conflicting revisions.
Changing this is an Enterprise Edition only feature.
continuous
- Type
-
boolean
- Description
-
If true, changes will be immediately synced when they happen. This is known as a continuous replication.
If false, all changes will be synced until they have been processed. The replication will then cease and not process any future changes (unless started again by the user). This is known as a one-shot replication.
custom_conflict_resolver
- Type
-
string
- Description
-
This specifies the Javascript function to use to resolve conflicts between conflicting revisions.
This must be used when
conflict_resolution_type=custom
. This property will be ignored whenconflict_resolution_type
is notcustom
.The Javascript function to provide this property should be in backticks (like the sync function). The function takes 1 parameter which is a struct that represents the conflict. This struct has 2 properties:
LocalDocument
- The local document. This contains the document ID under the_id
key.RemoteDocument
- The remote document The function should return the new document's body. This can be the winning revision (for example,return conflict.LocalDocument
), a new body, ornil
to resolve as a delete.
Example:
function(conflict) { console.log("Doc ID: "+conflict.LocalDocument._id); console.log("Full remote doc: "+JSON.stringify(conflict.RemoteDocument)); return conflict.RemoteDocument; }
Using complex
custom_conflict_resolver
functions can noticeably degrade performance. Use a built-in resolver whenever possible.This is an Enterprise Edition only feature.
direction
- Type
-
string
- Description
-
This specifies which direction the replication will be replicating with the
remote
replicator.
enable_delta_sync
- Type
-
boolean
- Description
-
This will turn on delta-sync for the replication. In order to enable delta-sync for a replication, the database level setting
delta_sync.enabled
must also be set to true.Using delta-sync is an Enterprise Edition only feature.
filter
- Type
-
string
- Description
-
This defines whether to filter documents.
initial_state
- Type
-
string
- Default
-
running
- Description
-
This is what state to start the replication in when creating a new replication.
This allows you to control if the replication starts in a
stopped
start orrunning
state.Replications prior to Sync Gateway 2.8 will run in the default state
running
.
max_backoff_time
- Type
-
integer
- Default
-
5
- Description
-
Specifies the maximum time-period (in minutes) that Sync Gateway will attempt to reconnect to a lost or unreachable remote.
When a disconnection happens, Sync Gateway will do an exponential backoff up to this specified value. When this value is met, it will attempt to reconnect indefinitely every
max_backoff_time
minutes.If this is set to 0, Sync Gateway will do the normal exponential backoff after the disconnect happens but then attempting 10 minutes and stop the replication.
Note: this defaults to 5 minutes for replications created prior to Sync Gateway 2.8.
purge_on_removal
- Type
-
boolean
- Description
-
Specifies whether to purge a document if the remote user loses access to all of the channels on the document when attempting to pull it from the remote.
If false, documents will not be replicated and not be purged when the user loses access.
query_params
- Type
-
array
- Description
-
This is a set of key/value pairs used in the query string of the replication.
If
filters=sync_gateway/bychannel
then this can be used to set the channels to filter by in a pull replication. To do this, set thechannels
key to a string array of the channels to filter by. For example:"filter":"sync_gateway/bychannel", "query_params": { "channels":["chanUser1"] },
remote
- Type
-
string
- Description
-
This is the endpoint of the database for the remote Sync Gateway that is the subject of this replication's
push
,pull
, orpushAndPull
action.Typically this would include the URI, port, and database name. For example,
https://localhost:4985/db
.
remote_password
- Type
-
string
- Description
-
The password to use to authenticate with the remote. This password will be redacted in the replication config.
remote_username
- Type
-
string
- Description
-
The username to use to authenticate with the remote.
replication_id
- Type
-
string
- Description
-
This is the ID of the replication.
When creating a new replication using a POST request, this will be set to a random UUID if not explicitly set.
When the replication ID is specified in the URL, this must be set to the same replication ID if specifying it at all.
run_as
- Type
-
string
- Description
-
This is used if you want to specify a user to run the replication as. This means that the replication will only be able to replicate what the user access to what the user has access to.
Errors
This section shows possible error responses returned by the Admin REST API.
Property | Schema | |
---|---|---|
error |
The error name. |
String |
reason |
The error description. |
String |