I'm tasked with modifying a legacy app so that users can upload payroll adjustments in bulk. Currently they have to fill out a form and input the data item by item, hitting submit after each one. I'm giving them the ability to upload a CSV file containing tons of adjustments at once.

On the server they are inserting items into Couch one by one, like this:

function wsapiPOST(req, res, next) {

  var path = req.path.substr(6)

    , url = couchPath + path + requestUtil.buildQueryString(req);



  request.post({

    url: url,

    headers: { 'content-type': 'application/json' },

    body: JSON.stringify(req.body)

  },function (err, resp, body) {

    if (err) {

      if (resp) {

        res.writeHead(resp.statusCode);

        res.end(body);

      } else { // This would happen if the request timed out

        res.writeHead(408);

        res.end('timeout');

      }

    }

  }).pipe(res);

}

The Couch URL is built dynamically.

req.body contains the properties for a single item.

I'm new to Couch but I'm not sure how to send multiple documents for insertion in a single operation. I could throw the request.post call into a loop as is, but I imagine that's not going to be very performant.

I just need pointed in the right direction for bulk insertion into Couch via its REST API.