On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 8:17 AM, Luscus Readbeard <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I am new to CouchDB and I would like to ask some question regarding > the building of complex map functions. > I looked at following documentation in the wiki: > > CommomJS Modules (http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/CommonJS_Modules) > JavascriptPatternViewCommonJs > (http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/JavascriptPatternViewCommonJs) > > > But I found this possibility of using some js libs very unsatisfying > since you have to be in some CouchApp context. >
There's no CouchApp dependency here. In views you can load commonjs modules to use in your map function. > What I would like to do is to be able to load some other docs or view > results in the map function in order to make some complex processing. > This isn't possible and won't ever be. If we allowed injection of random data into a view computation we'd never know when we needed to invalidate the results and rebuild. > I found the jquery.couch.js very convenient for example, I am > wondering is something comparable is accessible on the server side... > > Thanks for any hint. > > Luscus
