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From: Ben Cohen <ncohen@ucsd.edu>
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Subject: Fwd: 'Grouping' documents so that a set of documents is passed to the
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Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:49:30 +0800
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Big apologies for spamming the list -- I accidentally sent this email  
rather than another.
Cheers,
Ben

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> From: Ben Cohen <cohen.ben@gmail.com>
> Date: June 19, 2009 11:48:22 AM GMT+08:00
> To: user@couchdb.apache.org
> Subject: 'Grouping' documents so that a set of documents is passed  
> to the view function
>
> Is there anyway, or any known plan to add a way, to arrange for  
> couchdb to pass multiple documents to a view function rather than  
> just a single doc?
>
> I've got an application where for a variety of reasons I cannot  
> control the update method that various information sources use to  
> get data into couchdb.  This has the effect of breaking up  
> information I would like to treat as a single document across a  
> 'small' number (say 100) documents.  I'd like to define some way for  
> the 'relationship' between these documents to be 'discovered' by  
> couchdb so that those 100ish documents are passed to my view  
> function all at once.
>
> eg say i have the documents:
>
> {
> "_id" : "doc_a",
> "data" : "doc_a_data",
> "group_key" : 1
> },
> {
> "_id": "doc_b",
> "data": "doc_b_data",
> "group_key" : 1
> }
> {
> "_id": "doc_c",
> "data": "doc_c_data",
> "group_key" : 2
> }
> {
> "_id": "doc_d",
> "data": "doc_d_data",
> "group_key" : 2
> }
>
> It would be really cool if there were some way to pass all the docs  
> with a value of 1 for group_key to a single map function call, so I  
> could do computation across those related documents and emit the  
> results ...  I'm just using the magic group_key attribute as an  
> example, if such a feature were to actually be made I'd think you'd  
> define a javascript function which returned a single groupping k to  
> exist I 	


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