Hello Gabriel,
Why not making a key using only the first letter ?
function(doc) {
if (doc.type && doc.name) {
emit([doc.type, doc.name[0]);
}
}
and querying it with that key = ["artist","a"]
--
Clément
Le 21 juin 2011 à 16:18, Gabriel Farrell a écrit :
> I'm putting together a site where I have artists and works of art. I
> would like to browse those artists and works alphabetically, with URLs
> like http://example.com/artists/a and http://example.com/works/b. I
> have a view called type_name:
>
> function(doc) {
> if (doc.type && doc.name) {
> emit([doc.type, doc.name]);
> }
> }
>
> My "artists" list renders the results from that view in a template. I
> can get the first page of artists with a rewrite like this:
>
> {
> "from": "artists/a",
> "to": "_list/artists/type_name",
> "query": {
> "startkey": ["artist", "a"],
> "endkey": ["artist", "aZZZZZ"]
> }
> },
>
> How would I generalize this for all letters of the alphabet? I want to
> do something like the following, but the last ":startkey" isn't
> substituted:
>
> {
> "from": "artists/:startkey",
> "to": "_list/artists/type_name",
> "query": {
> "startkey": ["artist", ":startkey"],
> "endkey": ["artist", ":startkeyZZZZZ"]
> }
> },
>
> I can achieve something close by extending the URL to
> http://example.com/artists/a/aZZZZZ and using the following rewrite:
>
> {
> "from": "artists/:startkey/:endkey",
> "to": "_list/artists/type_name",
> "query": {
> "startkey": ["artist", ":startkey"],
> "endkey": ["artist", ":endkey"]
> }
> },
>
> The URL is uglier but it works. Is there any way to make the shorter
> URL work? Frankly, I think some of my trouble is that, coming from
> other web frameworks, I'm not used to my URLs being constrained in
> this way. I want to be able to grab the request path, munge it all
> over with JavaScript, then send it on to my lists, shows, views, etc.
