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Benoit Chesneau commented on COUCHDB-1931:
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mm no it wasn't the core motivation . it was about sending results yes, but
this is done by transforming the doc.
Also you only see one use of the shows and lists in your text. Have a look
around, ask to some of the cloudant customer and you will see that some people
are using them for other cases. I can say for sure that if it would be only for
this need a simple ajax request is enough today for that. The interest of using
lists is to have a use of the params on server side and make sure you send the
same results to all the clients. browsers or not.
The performance issue is workable, we are discussing it since awhile. I don't
see why people are using it as an argument against the use of them. If there is
a performance issue and people have some use of the lists or if it makes the
lists more useful, then we should work on it. But I don't see why we should
take the performance pretext to remove or advise against them.
> documentation on shows and lists in misleading
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> Key: COUCHDB-1931
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1931
> Project: CouchDB
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Documentation
> Reporter: Benoit Chesneau
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> The doc says for the shows:
> {quote}
> Show functions are used to represent documents in various formats, commonly
> as HTML page with nicer formatting. They can also be used to run server-side
> functions without requiring a pre-existing document.
> {quote}
> and later for the lists:
> {quote}
> While Show functions are used to customize document presentation, List
> functions are used for same purpose, but against View functions results.
> {quote}
> We shouldn't speak of rendering or not only. Shows are about transforming the
> results depending on the parameters you pass on the URL. Rendering is just
> one of the possibilities due to the ability of transforming and editing the
> result(s).
> We should make it more clear.
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