On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 8:42 AM, kowsik <kowsik@gmail.com> wrote:
> If i remember the original context, it's for pulling out document
> snippets using json-path's. So we don't have to write a view for each
> of the pieces of data we want.
>
> So if you have something like:
>
> {
>    _id: "12345",
>    comments: [ 'blah', 'foo' ],
>    meta: {
>        author: "me"
>    }
> }
>
> GET /db/12345?path=meta/author
>
> will just return "me" instead of the entire document.
>
> K.

Which is a paradigm case for a reusable _show function. ;)

Chris



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