depending on your type of keys, I think you can use client-side generated random ids, startkey and limit to fetch random values from your view.
On 28.06.2010, at 15:29, [email protected] wrote: > Hello couchers, > > how would you do to select a random subset of a view result (a simple view > with map only). > > Example (I don't write the full view response array for clarity) > > When called normally, my view returns : > > { > ... > rows: [ > {id: aa1}, > {id: aa2}, > {id: aa3}, > {id: aa4}, > {id: aa5}, > {id: aa6}, > {id: aa7}, > {id: aa8}, > {id: aa9} > ] > } > > And I want only three of those rows, randomly chosen. So I launch the magic > "get three random rows" feature, and it gives me : > > { > ... > rows: [ > {id: aa5}, > {id: aa3}, > {id: aa6} > ] > } > > The second time I launch the same magic "get three random rows" I got: > { > ... > rows: [ > {id: aa7}, > {id: aa1}, > {id: aa5} > ] > } > > Thanks for your advices > > Mickael
