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Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:59:53 -0400
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Subject: Re: Dynamic permanent views
From: Paul Davis <paul.joseph.davis@gmail.com>
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Keyboard fail...

{
    "_id": "_design/baz",
   "views": {
       "by_resource": {
            "map": "function(doc) {emit(doc[\"@resource_id\"], doc.id);}"
       }
   }
}

And query the view with:

http://127.0.0.1:5984/db_name/_design/baz/_view/by_resource?key="my_resource_id"

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Paul Davis<paul.joseph.davis@gmail.com> wrote:
> Create a design document that looks like this:
>
> {
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 8:51 AM, <maillist@ol-mars.se> wrote:
>> I'm trying to write a view that enables me to extract data from my couch
>> depending on what variables I'm passing to it.
>>
>> Here is an example of what an entry in the db might look like:
>>
>>
>> {
>> "@type": "LocationHelperTest",
>> "_id": "cad119d5abf74997a1dac4ca8ca6b266",
>> "_rev": "2526720230",
>> "name": "Test",
>> "what": {
>> "@new": 1,
>> "@old": null,
>> "@resource_id": "21716c48bc8211a522f0ac684acb1ea8"
>> },
>> "when": {
>> "@recieved": "2009-07-17T07:08:04.765000"
>> },
>> "who": {
>> "user_id": "user"
>> },
>> "why": {
>> "new_state": "new state",
>> "old_state": "old state",
>> "reason": "A random reason"
>> }
>> }
>>
>>
>> As you can see, I have a field, @resource_id, in the "what" dict. This
>> is the same as the ID for another entry in the db that is called
>> LocationTest. I'm using Pylons to write my system, and through the URL I
>> get the ID. With this ID I want to find all LocationHelperTests with the
>> @resource_id that matches this ID.
>>
>> How do I do this with views? (Or any other way if there is any). I'm not
>> interested in temporary views, but wants a permanten view.
>>
>