John, These question are typically handled in the users forum.
But otherwise for generic queries you can use https://github.com/rnewson/couchdb-lucene. or elasticsearch http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/river/couchdb.html On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 2:12 PM, JohnRodey <[email protected]> wrote: > I have some WebServices that act as a middle man between our client > applications and our backend repository(CouchDB). I wanted to create and > infrastructure where users could enter search criteria to a web service post > and run a query on those fields and do so in a generic way that isnt vendor > specific. I would like my client to be able to do something similar to > "http://host:port/query?name="bob",birthdatestart="1980/07/04",birthdateend="1981/07/04",hieght="6'1""". > > I basically want the ability to handle any type of query that a user throws > at me. But as Im looking it seems like this isnt exactly how CouchDB was > built. It seems like I would rather have a set of supported queries such as > "http://host:port/query=findByBirthdate?birthdatestart="1980/07/04",birthdateend="1981/07/04"";. > Is this true? I believe that I could accomplish what I want through > temporary views, but I know these are not desired for production. > > If I can somehow handle dynamic query parameters, is there a way to handle > which fields from the document to return to the user? > > Thanks for any insight! > > -- > View this message in context: > http://couchdb-development.1959287.n2.nabble.com/General-question-about-views-tp7306229p7306229.html > Sent from the CouchDB Development mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
