I'd be interested in know how exactly you get cacheable lists and
shows in a CouchApp.
I understand instantly why they'd be cacheable on the client side, and
how you could do it with Squid,
but it seems like lists and shows wouldn't be cacheable to multiple
clients in a pure CouchApp.
Am I missing something?
stephen
On Aug 10, 2010, at 12:58 PM, Dave Cottlehuber wrote:
On 11 August 2010 05:43, <[email protected]> wrote:
I'm having trouble understanding what you do with a view.
There are shows and views but there is seemingly no link
between them.
A view will give you back a json information.
A show will render a web page with body and header info
but how do you get a view to work with a show
You don't as far as I know. quotes from TDG.
just remember: lists are to views, as shows are to docs. same purpose,
different scope.
"Just as show functions convert documents to arbitrary output formats,
CouchDB list functions allow you to render the output of view queries
in any format. The powerful iterator API allows for flexibility to
filter and aggregate rows on the fly, as well as outputting raw
transformations for an easy way to make Atom feeds, HTML lists, CSV
files, config files, or even just modified JSON."
lists are good for summary data across multiple docs:
doc (single JSON doc) -> view (map-reduced values from many docs, in
JSON) -> list (transformed JSON in any format you like)
"Because a show function will always return the same result given the
same input, and can’t change anything about the environment in which
it runs, it’s output can be cached and intelligently reused."
shows are designed to be cacheable & side effect free - so they can
operate only on a single doc
doc (single JSON doc) -> show (transformed JSON in any format you
like)
This is covered later in the book in more detail.
http://books.couchdb.org/relax/design-documents/shows
http://books.couchdb.org/relax/design-documents/design-documents
http://books.couchdb.org/relax/design-documents/lists
http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Formatting_with_Show_and_List
I hope I got that right.
BTW re your previous email, are you doing this in Futon, from a
command line with curl, how are you uploading the JSON? Give us more
info.
A+
Dave
