Why not just create the following:
{
"_id": "some_id_3",
"type": "Page",
"text": "Some text",
"related_docs": ["some_id_2, "some_id_3"]
}
{
"_id": "some_id_2",
"type": "Image",
"size": "1024x768",
"title": "Nice chick"
}
{
"_id": "some_id_3",
"type": "Movie",
"duration": "600",
"title": "Cool movie"
}
And store actual image and movie as attachment.
Use this guide
http://blog.couch.io/post/446015664/whats-new-in-apache-couchdb-0-11-part-two-views
to retrieve Content and related documents in 1 query.
On 13.04.2010, at 2:59, Kenneth Tyler wrote:
> this may sound a little strange
>
> i am trying to build up a "content" object that can contain several
> kinds of files.
>
> for example, it might contain a some text, and an image, and a video clip
>
> i want to tag my documents in couch so that i can retrieve the whole
> "family" of documents
>
> so i use a field called "name" and i put the uuid generated for the
> first document in the family into that field in all the documents i
> want to belong to the content "family".... i add that documents own
> uuid as the second part of the "name": 89ehjwol8e7/7896w89e6r
>
> i this case we would have documents T I AND V, and they would all have
> "names" with the same uuid at the beginning of the string
>
> so i can make a view with the "name" fields as the key and get back
> all three documents by using a regular expression that looks for the
> common head of the string in all the name fields
>
> .....
> it gets more complicated later... but first i wanted to check and see
> if this approach "fits" with the way couchdb "wants" things to be done
>
> i love couch... i really think its going to be huge.... i'm coming
> from a ms access application developer background... so a lot of stuff
> is strange at first... and i have a lot of "relational" habits about
> how i think about data
>
> thanks
>
> ken tyler
