On Apr 30, 2010, at 1:39 PM, erich oliphant wrote:
> Ok, but do I have to regen JSON manually in this casem since the _list
> function is designed to spit out arbitrary formats ?
yes you can return JSON.stringify({"foo":5})
>
> On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Paul Bonser <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> And of course, it didn't occur to me to mention that there was already
>> an even more general solution already in place...
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 7:47 PM, Chris Anderson <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> You can use a _list or _show function for this.
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>> On Apr 27, 2010, at 4:47 PM, Paul Bonser <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm pretty sure there is no such thing, but if it was to be added, I
>>>> think it would be better to add something a little more general, such
>>>> as "just_field" so you could do something like
>>>> ?just_field=id/key/doc/value to get a list of all the
>>>> ids/keys/docs/values, respectively.
>>>>
>>>> I don't like the name "just_field", that's just the first thing that
>>>> came to mind, but I could see such a feature being useful.
>>>>
>>>> There'd be no need to wrap an extra doc around it, it could just be a
>>>> json array returned, and it wouldn't make sense to strip out the _id
>>>> and _rev, so with your example, you'd end up with the following being
>>>> returned:
>>>>
>>>> [
>>>> {"_id":"1","_rev":"1","important":"stuff"}
>>>> ]
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 5:36 PM, erich oliphant
>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi is there a way to get couch results without the extra metadata?
>>>>> Perhaps
>>>>> instead of 'include_docs' where you get:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>> {"total_rows":1498,"offset":350,"rows":[{"id":"1","key":"1","doc":{"_id":"1","_rev":"1","important":"stuff"}}]}
>>>>>
>>>>> a 'docs_only' or something option that would return something like
>>>>> {[{"important","stuff"}]}
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Erich Oliphant
>>>>>
>>>>> "There are, in fact, two things, science and opinion, the former begets
>>>>> knowledge, the latter ignorance"
>>>>> -- Hippocrates of Cos
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Paul Bonser
>>>> http://probablyprogramming.com
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Paul Bonser
>> http://probablyprogramming.com
>>
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> --
> Erich Oliphant
>
> "There are, in fact, two things, science and opinion, the former begets
> knowledge, the latter ignorance"
> -- Hippocrates of Cos
