Hi all,
I'm new to CouchDB and I ran into a small hick-up. I would like to hear
any opinions about my approach and any possible solutions I do not
mention myself ;)
Introduction: I decided to write a script to push /proc information into
a CouchDB instance and then use the map reduce to create graph data,
mean loads, etc. (Code is GPLv3, available at [1])
Approach: I have a json object within my entries to document where the
information came from (called acquire) and I would like to use a
concatenation of that information as a key in the emit() call. I decided
to try out: emit(doc.acquire, doc)
I like using doc.acquire directly because I don't have to concatenate
all the different fields by hand and it keeps it all readable and very
short.
Problem: using a json object as a key value in emit will serialize it,
but the serialization does not seem to be stable, so serializing the
object {a:2,b:3} and {b:3, a:2} will not result in the same string.
Question: Is there a json serialization function/call that I can use to
sort on object attribute names, to make sure that {a:2,b:3} and {b:3,
a:2} will serialize to the same string?
Greets,
Bram Neijt
[1] http://git.logfish.net/?p=procplumbing.git;a=summary
