On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Norman Barker<[email protected]> wrote: > ok, I see that it is stated in the FAQ that this is not in your plan, > so a pre-processor it is. > > Just in case anyone else wants to add generic methods to main.js > without polluting their views and needs to import a fairly substantial > javascript library to do this you can do this in dos as follows > > copy x.js + y.js + couch_main.js main.js /Y > xcopy main.js %COUCH_HOME%\share\server /Y /Q /R > > as you can see I am running windows, I have some bug fixes to give > back on the c compilation with MSVC is JIRA the best way? >
Yeah, JIRA is the place to submit patches. Paul > thanks, > > Norman > > On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Jan Lehnardt<[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 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 >> -- >> >> >>> >>> 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 >>>> -- >>>> >>>> >>> >> >> >
