On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Jean-Pierre Fiset <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there a way of accessing documents in a database while validating a > document update > (validate_doc_update)? >
No. > In particular, if a new document inserted to CouchDb contained a field with > the id of another > document, would it be possible to retrieve the latter document to verify that > the identifier is > valid? Also, is it possible to access the content of that document and use > the information found > there during validation? > No. > Thanks, > > JP > Allowing the touching of other documents would require making assertions about referential integrity that could be easily broken during replication. HTH, Paul Davis
