On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 3:40 AM, Jan Lehnardt <j...@apache.org> wrote: > > On 5 Jun 2009, at 11:49, Nils Breunese wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> I'd like to write a list function to render a database as a CSV file. >> According to the wiki [0] the URL looks like this: >> >> /<database>/_design/<designdoc>/_list/<list>/<view> >> >> So, a named view is required to run a list function? I'd like to dump the >> complete database to CSV. Of course I could write a simple view function >> that emits all documents, but it would be nice if I could just run the list >> function on the database without using a view. >> >> Is this a technical limitation or design decision? Any ideas on this? > > We could special-case the _all_docs view.
I think we should offer lists on the _all_docs view. It will be a smallish Erlang patch, if anyone feels like it. I doubt I'll have time to implement, but this is a feature we'll want and should be simple to write. If you take it up, please discuss your progress on the @dev list >, but then, doing it manually is > so simple that I'd rather not add that to core CouchDB (…just yet, if > there's > more demand for this feature, I'm happy to reconsider :) > > Cheers > Jan > -- > > -- Chris Anderson http://jchrisa.net http://couch.io
