creating a flawed design doc hangs cluster

after setting up the cluster, I ran some unit tests for my php 5.3 couchbase client. Created some views, populated test data, queried the views, then deleted the views as part of my test teardown. But my test left the empty design document. After running this test, the memcache port only returns errors, no data, and the admin panel for couchbase says the one node in my test cluster is pending. CPU usage spikes and often hangs at 100%. If I go in and delete the empty design document, everything recovers.

Can reproduce the issue by doing:

curl "http://127.0.0.1:8092/default/_design/test72/" -X PUT -d '

' -v

in php an empty associative array (think hash table) is the same as an empty array in json encoding: []
An empty object is represented as: {}

This curl call doesn't cause the issue:

curl "http://127.0.0.1:8092/default/_design/test72/" -X PUT -d '{"views":{}}' -v

I have patched my client to avoid the problem, but figured I should report it so this issue doesn't cause the cluster to hang for someone else making the same mistake.