On Nov 13, 2008, at 5:49 PM, Antony Blakey wrote:
You could use the view mechanism, and attach a "language" attribute,
and have this be a general transformation interface, which would
indeed be very nice. For efficiency you would want to apply this
over sets of documents, and probably in a transactional context like
bulk update does now.
However... Damien wants something to use in replication, which would
mean that javascript would then become a required, rather than an
optional part of Couch, because replication would require it (unless
you made the replication diff generator pluggable ... but why go
there?). The benefit of the declarative diff format is that applying
a diff can be done within Couch.
couldn't these queries run in the view server? in fact any mechanism
which would allow the view server could accomplish this with a
protocol between it and the db server. basically it's an addition to
the map/reduce functionality which would alter documents on the fly.
a @ http://codeforpeople.com/
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