You can't maintain a state across calls to map functions in this way.
Map functions can be called in any order or in parallel, any number of
times on a particular document and in completely separate environments.
They should not have any side effects or depend on any outside state.
You should read up on Google's MapReduce and maybe functional
programming in general in order to understand how CouchDB works.
If you just want to number the results of your view, that can be easily
done by the calling code.
Adam Groves wrote:
Hi,
I've got the following view:
count = 0;
function(doc) {
if(doc.type == "document") {
count = count + 1
emit(doc._id, count);
}
}
The idea is that I get a list of documents, each having a counter
value which is incremental. I expected the count values to come out in
order, but that isn't the case: my first few documents have values of
62, 61, 22, 19. I'm not quite sure what's going on here - any ideas
how the order is being set here?
Regards
Adam Groves
