I'm still a couchdb rookie, and I don't want to sound condescending or obnoxious, but the term "view" suggests to me that it should be a read-only operation.
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Paul Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > What Chris said. Also, if you're expecting any attributes you add to > the document to be saved to the database that'll never happen. Views > need to satisfy some properties to ensure that views can be > incrementally computed. Adding attributes in a view would be a sure > fire way to start breaking these requirements. > > Paul > > On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Daniel DeLeo <[email protected]> wrote: >> Is it possible in the newer versions to add attributes to a document object >> in the view? For example, on 0.8.0, if your view map function is: >> >> function(doc) { >> doc.computed_attribute = 'hello, world'; >> emit(doc._id, doc); >> }; >> >> The view gives a 50X error, and a stack trace in futon. Is it possible to >> do this in any version of Couch? >> >> Thanks, >> Dan DeLeo >> > -- Matthew Wilson [email protected] http://tplus1.com
