Example of adding a view to Couchbase Server 2.0 build 1495 and later

App.java

package com.couchbase.sample.designdlocloader;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.StringWriter;
import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
import org.apache.http.HttpHost;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.auth.AuthScope;
import org.apache.http.auth.UsernamePasswordCredentials;
import org.apache.http.client.AuthCache;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPut;
import org.apache.http.client.protocol.ClientContext;
import org.apache.http.entity.StringEntity;
import org.apache.http.impl.auth.BasicScheme;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.BasicAuthCache;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
import org.apache.http.protocol.BasicHttpContext;

public class App {

  public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
    String view = "{\"language\":\"javascript\",\"views\":{\""
            + "dev_testview\":{\"map\":\"function (doc) {  "
            + "emit(doc._id, 1)}\",\"reduce\":\"_sum\" }}}";

    System.out.println("Result of load is " + loadDesignDoc(view, "endpoint", "dev_testview")); // do not use leading dev_ if you want a full cluster dataset view
  }

  public static boolean loadDesignDoc(String doc, String bucketname, String viewname) throws IOException {

    DefaultHttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();

    HttpHost targetHost = new HttpHost("localhost", 8092, "http");

    httpclient.getCredentialsProvider().setCredentials(
            new AuthScope(targetHost.getHostName(), targetHost.getPort()),
            new UsernamePasswordCredentials("endpoint", "password"));

    // Create AuthCache instance
    AuthCache authCache = new BasicAuthCache();
    // Generate BASIC scheme object and add it to the local
    // auth cache
    BasicScheme basicAuth = new BasicScheme();
    authCache.put(targetHost, basicAuth);

    // Add AuthCache to the execution context
    BasicHttpContext localcontext = new BasicHttpContext();
    localcontext.setAttribute(ClientContext.AUTH_CACHE, authCache);


    HttpPut httpput = new HttpPut("http://localhost:8092/" + bucketname + "/_design/" + viewname);
    httpput.setHeader("Content-type", "application/json");

    StringEntity reqEntity = new StringEntity(doc);


    httpput.setEntity(reqEntity);

    HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httpput, localcontext);

    System.err.println(response.getStatusLine());
    StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
    IOUtils.copy(response.getEntity().getContent(), writer, "UTF-8");
    String theString = writer.toString();
    System.err.println(theString);

    if (response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode() < 300) {
      return true;
    } else {
      return false;
    }
  }
}

Note that authentication needs to be asserted (or as HttpClient says, added preemptively). Therefore, the method of adding auth is a bit different.

Also note that the old port 8092 still exists, but won't accept any of these credentials.