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Robert Newson commented on COUCHDB-1931:
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"ask to some of the cloudant customer and you will see that some people are
using them for other cases"
I'm well aware of what our customers do with show/lists, it doesn't mean that
it's the right thing or even a good thing (it usually isn't).
My advice on show/list is from experience.
> 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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