On Jan 4, 2009, at 9:35 AM, Michael Fellinger wrote:
For what it's worth, I'd love to see a separation of data and data
about data, and I'd also like to propose a change to map functions:
function(doc, meta){ emit(doc.title, [meta.id, meta.ref]); }
function(doc){ emit(doc.title); }
That way people who are complaining about having to type doc.doc.title
can have their peace of mind as well.
I might see the whole issue very limited, but it makes absolutely the
most sense to me, everybody can stop worrying about which data is
allowed in the data part and the metadata can grow in any direction.
Nobody is annoyed by prefixing _ anymore (symetric API) and there is
little technical need anymore for validating documents (as long as
they can be serialized to valid JSON) before putting them into the db.
^ manveru
i think those of us who have maintained a lot of code ourselves see
the wisdom in this. having rules that are 100% consistent lifts a
massive mental weight for anyone connected to the code.
keys.each do |key|
unless key =~ %r/^_/
...
just gives me hives to think about.
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