On 12 Aug 2009, at 22:50, Norman Barker wrote:
ok, (sorry should have been clearer)
I am just looking to add generic functions to main.js - and the
methods will be added to the sandbox to be available in a view, I also
do not wish to load arbitrary functions in a view. I am not looking
to add many, but main.js is getting big and it would be more
manageable if we could use load (at the moment I am using a
pre-processor to create main.js).
Load will be available in main.js, it will not be available in the
views - the sandbox takes care of that.
I doubt I will be the only one who wants to add generic functions to a
server since _show has been implemented and generic functionality from
external libraries would be useful in this application.
It is easier to maintain if generic functions can be added main.js not
in views as such there either needs to be a pre-process in couchdb to
create the main.js (so a windows batch file or shell script) or the
load() function needs to be enabled or main.js is going to grow and
grow.
Jan, unless I am mistaken CouchApp does not change main.js?
No but it injects code into your view, show and list functions which
is exactly
what you want. If you change your function library code, views need to
invalidated, if you don't include the code in the functions, CouchDB
has no
way of knowing.
http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Frequently_asked_questions#view_share_code
Cheers
Jan
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Norman
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Jan Lehnardt<[email protected]> wrote:
On 12 Aug 2009, at 21:08, Norman Barker wrote:
Hi,
I have been looking at the SpiderMonkey shell and the custom couchdb
javascript driver and see that the couchdb driver does not allow the
load(filename) function which is allowed in the shell, is this
intentional?
We don't want users to load extra files in their view code :)
I am looking to add functions to main.js without having to paste
them
into one file and load() would have been a way around this. The
alternative is to implement a pre-processor to create one file
before
deployment which I will use for now.
CouchApp* is that preprocessor:
http://github.com/couchapp/couchapp/tree/master
Cheers
Jan
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