On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 4:49 AM, Stanley Iriele <[email protected]>wrote:
> Bulk updates in couchdb are a tad painful. you have to fetch them out of
> the database apply your change and save them.
>
> I propose adding the ability to have something like an update handler that
> folds across documents
>
> either in the way that lists do via get row
>
> ex.
>
> function (head, req){
>
> while (var row = getRow()){
> row.doc.name = req.query.name;
> send(row.doc)// except this commits the doc to disk or something here
> }
>
> or something along this line...it could return an array over the wire like
> bulk updates does....on a scale of 1 to 10 how bad of an idea is this?
>
mmm I was rather thinking to have something like :
POST /db/_bulk_update?arg1=..&...
{
"docs" = [ doc1, ... docN ],
"update_function": "function(doc, req) {
...
return edited_doc;
}
}
Would it works for you?
- benoit
