Resolving replication conflicts for deleted documents in CouchDB

Question

The way of resolving replication conflicts recommended by official documentation is:

1. Read conflicting revisions using document\'s _conflicts field (e.

Answer 1

The best solution would be to use the reserved property _deleted to remove documents instead of HTTP DELETE. Then you are free to also set other properties:

doc._deleted = true;
doc.deletedByUser = true;
doc.save();

Then in the merge process check the _changes feed for _deleted_conflicts and delete the document if there is a revision within _deleted_conflicts that has the deletedByUser flag set to true.

I hope this helps!