webnesia is a REST interface to Erlang's mnesia. It provides an API and a Web frontend with many similarities to CouchDB.

1. make sure you have mochiweb installed;

2. check the symlink to mochiweb source on deps/;

3. run make;

4. run ./start-dev.sh;

5. open your browser on http://localhost:8000/_utils/.

Right now, these are the supported methods:

• PUT /<table_name>: create a new table named table_name.

  The payload must contain the proposed table schema in the form of a JSON list of values. Example:

  ["id", "timestamp", "test_field"]

• POST /<table_name>: insert a new record into the table name table_name or edit an existing record.

  The payload must contain the record data in the form of a JSON key-value pair list. Example:

  [{"id": 1, "timestamp": 1289145623708, "test_field": "the brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"}]

• DELETE /<table_name>: delete the table named table_name.

• DELETE /<table_name>/<record_id>: delete a specific record from the table table_name.

• GET /<table_name>: read information about the table table_name.

• GET /<table_name>/<record_id>: get a specific record from the table table_name.

• GET /<table_name>/_all_records: read all records from table table_name.

  There are two optional parameters:

  • limit: limit the query to a given number of records;
  • skip: skip a given number of records.