Hi,
Unless the document is HUGE why not do something like:
http://127.0.0.1:5984/db_name/doc_id
and then strip out/manipulate the interesting field client side (e.g.
what Futon does)? To me that seems simpler than making a long list of
views...
Cheers
Simon
On 8 Jan 2009, at 02:59, Robert Koberg wrote:
On Jan 7, 2009, at 9:24 PM, Paul Davis wrote:
Robert,
The function you're describing doesn't exist, but the end result
does.
This would be done using a view to get only parts of a document that
are interesting to the calling code. Its not automatic by any means,
but you could write a view that would give you something similar:
function(doc)
{
for(var field in doc)
{
emit([field, doc._id], doc[field]);
}
}
Then to access a specific property:
http://127.0.0.1:5984/db_name/_view/view_name/by_property?
key=["foo", "docid1"]
OK, that is what I thought. Seems extremely inefficient (but what do
I know :) ) since I know the exact document and path to the
property. It seems like I would need to create unknown numbers of
views to handle these types of lookups while going through all docs
in a DB each time.
thanks,
-Rob
HTH,
Paul Davis
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Robert Koberg <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
first, couchdb is just beautiful! :) (using 0.8.1-incubating from
MacPorts)
I am very new, and have read the available docs and several blog
posts.
Can you drill into a doc with a simple GET?
Say I have a doc like:
{"_id": "a", "_rev": "123", "foo":{"bar": 1}, "big-ass-prop":
"huge amount
of stuff"}
Ideally I would like to be able to call something like:
http://127.0.0.1:5984/mydb/a/foo
to return {"bar":1} and avoid downloading "big-ass-prop"
Is this or something like it possible?
(I realize "foo" is a 'sibling' of the _id in the document, but it
is
probably treated more like a parent in the DB?)
If not possible, is it possible to create some kind of default
action/filter/? that does something like the above? That is, reads
the
request uri, recognizes it is a document and that there is extra
path info
which should be used to resolve a property.
thanks,
-Rob
