Chris Anderson wrote: > On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 5:20 AM, Volker Mische <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Noah Slater wrote: >>> On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 10:47:11PM +1100, Volker Mische wrote: >>>> An additional feature would be that you can return any arbitrary JSON to >>>> the >>>> view that will be attached to the resulting document. An example would be >>>> returning a distance between a point specified in the query and a geometry >>>> in >>>> a document. >>> I'm not sure I understand what it means to attach something to a JSON >>> document. >>> >> What I meant with "attach" is, that the result (custom JSON) from the >> external service has to end up somehow in the final output of the view. >> > > This sound like something you could do by having say, a python or ruby > (or js) view server that would query the external service while > processing the view. Should be doable with the current trunk.
I don't want to have the dependency on a custom view server, the arbitrary JSON should be "attached" to the document before it reaches the view server.
