this feature would be extremely useful Alex 2011/10/24, Jamie Talbot <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > With reference to linked documents, is there any support for the idea > of linked document data being inlined into an emitted {_id: XXX} > block, perhaps with a new query parameter such as 'follow_links=true', > rather than being appended when called with 'include_docs=true'? > > I know this represents a substantial departure from how things work > now, but it would offer two significant benefits that I can see: > > 1) The ability to follow multiple linked docs from a single document > in a single request. Let's say for a blog post: > > function (doc) { > emit(doc.timestamp, [{_id: doc.category_id}, {_id: doc.user_id}]); > } > > called with follow_links=true which would return for example: > > { > "key": 'POST010', > "value": [{ > '_id': 'CAT001', > 'name': 'First Category' > }, { > '_id': 'USER004', > 'name': 'Monkey Magic', > 'dob': '1981-02-06' > }] > } > > 2) You could combine it with include_docs=true, and be able to > retrieve the source document at the same time. At the moment when > using this, if I want data from the source and the linked doc, I can > only retrieve one or the other with include_docs, which either forces > me to emit more data from the source, increasing the size of the view, > or else avoid using the link and make multiple requests. > > While currently useful for hierarchies, I find the linked docs feature > a little limiting when I want to use it for any other purpose. > > Thoughts? > > Are there any existing ways to achieve the above? > > Cheers, > > Jamie > > --- > http://jamietalbot.com >
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