("subquery" for lack of a better term)
Hello.
I asked this in #CouchDB, but Jan suggested I also email it here.
I have a problem where I have data in couch, and I want to perform what seems
like one too many leaps of logic from within a view. Here's some sample data:
[
{"_id":1,"_rev":1,"type":"user","following":[2,3]},
{"_id":2,"_rev":1,"type":"user","following":[1]},
{"_id":3,"_rev":1,"type":"user","following":[1]},
{"_id":4,"_rev":1,"type":"asset","ownerid":1},
{"_id":5,"_rev":1,"type":"asset","ownerid":1},
{"_id":6,"_rev":1,"type":"asset","ownerid":2},
{"_id":7,"_rev":1,"type":"asset","ownerid":3},
{"_id":8,"_rev":1,"type":"asset","ownerid":3}
]
I want to query for a given id where type=user, and get all type=asset records
owned by that user, or by users that the queried user is following. Here are
some examples that hopefully help:
_id=1; want documents with IDs: [4,5,6,7,8]
_id=2; want documents with IDs: [4,5,6]
_id=3; want documents with IDs: [4,5,7,8]
I hope that's clear enough. if not, please let me know, and I'll try to expand
my explanation.
The foundation of the problem seems to be that from within a map, I can't fetch
secondary type=user documents in order to perform what amounts to a join (in
SQL-speak).
Any help is appreciated. I'm currently solving this problem on the app side,
but that's far from ideal (causes a mess with things like limits, for example).
S
