On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 1:40 AM, Filipe David Manana <[email protected]> wrote: > Reconsidering the doc_ids _changes parameter: > > I noticed it is mutually exclusive with the filter parameter. That is, > if doc_ids is supplied the filter parameter is ignored. > Wouldn't it be more interesting if we had an intersection? > > It could be useful for security reasons as well. A proxy could add the > doc_ids parameter or a filter parameter to enforce some security > policy. > > I'm not sure intersection is something wanted. _changes need to be fast , and filters or doc_ids are already slow down the process.
Also you don't need to have doc_ids and filters, you can simply pass a list of doc ids as parameters to a filter function via the query args. On the other hand maybe we could allows a POST to be passed as a property of a request object to a change filter function ? - benoit
