On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 3:34 AM, Jan Lehnardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hey Marc, > I hope you don't mind: I am CC'ing our couchdb-users mailing list, > so others can benefit from the discussion: > > On Apr 23, 2008, at 04:28, Marc Chung wrote: > >> I was at MtnWestRuby and had a chance to ask you questions over lunch >> about CouchDB. In the talk you gave, you mentioned a few features >> which made me interested in checking Couchdb out. 1) storing and >> serving up HTML files from within a record, and 2) using a Map/Reduce >> like API for view collation and 3) creating new records from within my >> _view functions for, say, creating an inverted index . Are these >> features implemented in Couchdb 0.74? I haven't had much luck finding >> documentation on them. If I want to say, write a webapp using nothing >> but Javascript, does my Javascript live in a _design/ record, or.. >> somewhere else? I noticed the installation direction[1] contains a >> good place to put my code. Is that the convention? >> >> -Marc >> >> [1] /opt/local/share/couchdb/www, which contains "index.html" etc. >> > > > 1) The place to store HTML files like I mentioned in Salt Lake would > be a document's attachment: Look for "Attachments" at > http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/HttpDocumentApi on how to do this. > Each attachment then has URI that you can call from a browser > that serves your application. In fact the (botched) demo I gave > worked that way. > > You could store files into the [1] directory, but that is reserved for > CouchDB-related things, so for testing, it is fine, but for an actual > app, you'd do attachments. > > I do have a small script that loads a bunch of files into document, > I added this to the wiki: > > http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/ServingAppsFromCouchDb > > Note that you wouldn't want to run a publicly facing application here, > since CouchDB does not yet have a security concept, so everyone > could do anything. You could put an access restricting proxy in > front of CouchDB though. For local/private apps, this is fine as well. > > 2) We have the Map, the Reduce is in the works, see: > http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/HttpViewApi > > 3) You can't create new records from within a view function, but > the view function would be able to create a reversed index, that > you can query. IIRC that is possible with the map we have in > place already. > > Cheers > Jan > -- > First, thanks for the info on enhancements to CouchDB views. I am new to playing with CouchDB but have a of experience with developing Notes so I understand the concept. I tried the various view query arguments and got them to work with the exception of 'descending=true' I am using the following URL for testing: http://localhost:8888/testcouch/_all_docs?descending=true I am running version 0.6.4 on Windows and am wondering if this has been implemented at this time or am I doing something incorrect? Thanks, Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED]
