On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Sean Copenhaver <[email protected]>wrote:
> Oh wow, I was unaware that you could filter by view. The code indeed makes > it look that way. I'm not sure which release this was done in though, or if > you would need to build from latest source. > > Anyway, the code makes me think the request would be more like this: > GET > > http://myaccount.iriscouch.com/mydb/_change?filter=_view&view=_design/mydb/_view/my_view > > Actually the following seems to be more of what I want, but apparently I'm not calling it correctly: GET http://myaccount.iriscouch.com/mydb/_changes?filter=view&view=myview/my_view => {"error":"bad_request","reason":"filter parameter must be of the form `designname/filtername`"} > I get that from here: > > https://github.com/apache/couchdb/blob/trunk/src/couchdb/couch_changes.erl#L144 > > Looks like those function clauses are to define the different built in > filters plus the last one to catch custom ones. The one on that line looks > like what you are after and it's expecting a 'view' query string parameter > I > think. > > I believe the _design filter is to monitor for when a design document > changes and not to filter by a function inside of it. I don't have anything > setup to test this though. > I think you are right. > > Hopefully someone with not knowledge is able to confirm this and which > release this was in > Yes please. I think it is a 1.1 feature, but maybe you can only filter on doc ids and design docs: https://github.com/apache/couchdb/blob/trunk/CHANGES#L63 This is the original thread that gave me the impression it should be possible: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.couchdb.user/13364 On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 7:32 AM, Jeroen van Dijk > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > I've tried to run the changes feed on a specific view, but so far I > haven't > > succeeded. I'm only able to use the 'doc_ids' filter, but I can't filter > > using a view. > > > > I've tried the following requests (using IrisCouch, couchdb version 1.1): > > > > GET > > http://myaccount.iriscouch.com/mydb/_changes?filter=_doc_ids&doc_ids=[ > > "_design/mydb/_view/my_view] > > GET > > > http://myaccount.iriscouch.com/mydb/_changes?filter=_design&design=_design/mydb/_view/my_view > > > > Both give me the same result whereas I would expect the 'filter=_design' > > to give me the result of the map function and not the changes of the > design > > document itself. The second request also works without the design > parameter: > > > > GET http://myaccount.iriscouch.com/mydb/_changes?filter=_design > > > > I think that also indicates I am doing something wrong. Anyone knows how > to > > get this working? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Jeroen > > > > > > NB. My Erlang is not good enough to understand what exactly happens here: > > > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb/tags/1.1.0/src/couchdb/couch_changes.erl > > > > > -- > “The limits of language are the limits of one's world. “ -Ludwig von > Wittgenstein >
