I think I'm missing a part of this. If you want a user to see only part of the document, would you not create a view that only emits parts of the document?
I'm new at this, so could you write up an usage example for me? Greets, Bram On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Fedor Indutny <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone! > > You've discussed earlier possibility of adding access validators to _design > documents, this feature it's a kind of thing that many couchdb users will be > glad to see. > The conclusion of previous discussion was that we can't add this validators, > because we actually won't be able to tell later, whether user can access > _design/view or not. > > What if we could add *validate_view_**access *to _design document? > It's not only fix of problem, I've mentioned above, but also a feature: > You'll be able to allow user to access only view, without having an access > to a full document. > So, for example, views could show only *title* field of document, while * > price* field will be hidden in a document itself. > > What do you think? > > -- > (Node.js, Ruby, Python, PHP developer) > Fedor Indutny >
