Couchdb returning Invalid Json - json

Question

Trying to learn Views in CouchDB, from the book, but I keep coming across this issue, for some reason, this is a bad request and is invalid JSON:
{
"_id" : "_design/example",
"language" : "javascript",
"views" : {
"foo" : {
"map" : "function(doc) { if (doc.date && doc.title) { emit(doc.date, doc.title);}}"
}
}
}
Yet this is fine:
{
"_id": "_design/tyres_used",
"language": "javascript",
"views": {
"tyres": {
"map": "function(doc) { if(doc.tyres && doc.client) {\n emit(doc.tyres, doc.client);\n} \n}"
}
}
}
The only way I can upload docs at the moment is to alter the second script with the words from the first then it goes in. I have no idea what I did on the first one though to get it to work.
Apologies if this comes out looking wrong, I have never done this block quote before.

Answer 1

The first error you are receiving is because cURL can't find the file. Make sure the file is in the same directory where you're executing your command to specify the relative/absolute path to the file.
Next, you'll face a Content-type error. You need to specify what type of data you are sending to CouchDB.To specify the JSON Content-type header with cURL, do the following :
curl -X PUT 127.0.0.1:5984/views_testing/_design/example -d #example.json -H "Content-type: application/json"