Monkey patch Couchbase Python client in order to work with data stored by .NET couchbase client.

patch_python_couchbase_for_read_data_stored_by_dotnet_client.py

# Monkey patch Couchbase Python client in order to work with data stored by .NET couchbase client.
# http://www.couchbase.com/docs/couchbase-manual-2.0/couchbase-views-datastore-fields.html
# Both Python and .NET couchbase clients using fields in document metadata 
# for storing type information which does not compatible with each other.
def get_patched_couchbase():
    from couchbase.constants import MemcachedConstants
    import struct as original_struct

    unpack_original = original_struct.unpack

    def unpack_workaround(fmt, string):
        if fmt == MemcachedConstants.GET_RES_FMT and string.encode('hex') == '00000112':
            return unpack_original(fmt, '00000000'.decode('hex'))
        else:
            return unpack_original(fmt, string)

    original_struct.unpack = unpack_workaround
    from couchbase.client import Couchbase
    return Couchbase


Couchbase = get_patched_couchbase()

couchbase = Couchbase('localhost:8091', 'admin', 'password')
bucket = couchbase['dev']
rows = bucket.view('_design/testing/_view/all_by_types')
for row in rows:
    print bucket.get(row['id'])