Development notes ================= Session data ------------ This is a skeleton of what the session data within node.js will look like: req.session = { "initialized": true, "data": { "user": {}, //see user document "profile": {}, //see profile document .data attribute "login": false, "lastActivity": new Date().toString() } }; Database documents ------------------ user document: { "_id": "%NICKNAME%", "auth": "%SCRYPTHASH%", "email": "%USERMAIL%", "type": "user", "profile": "%COUCHDOCID_PROFILE%" } profile document: { "_id": "%COUCHDOCID%", "type": "profile", "data": { //the object that is handled } } API --- GET retrieve data PUT put a whole dataset (overwrite) POST update a dataset (update given parts only) DELETE delete/destroy something GET /user {} {success, user: {%USER_DOCUMENT%}} PUT /user {username, password, email} {success} POST /user {username, password, email} {success} DELETE /user {} {success} GET /profile {} {success, profile: {%PROFILE_DOCUMENT}} PUT /profile {profile} {success} POST /profile {profile} {success} DELETE /profile {} {success} GET /session {} {success, login} PUT /session {username, password} {success} DELETE /session {} {success}