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From: Alex Koshelev <daevaorn@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 21:38:47 +0300
Message-ID: <e3794dc91001061038o998d7a0o1e1a667e87a7a62b@mail.gmail.com>
Subject: Re: retrieving particular documents in one shot
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Hi, Michal!

If you want to get set of keys from view[1] or database[2] you can make POS=
T
request with body consits of needed keys -- for your example:

 {'keys': ['a', 'g', 't']}


[1]: http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/HTTP_view_API
[2]: http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/HTTP_Bulk_Document_API
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Alex Koshelev


On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Michal Nowikowski <godfryd@gmail.com>wrote=
:

> Hello,
>
> I digging in manuals but cannot find the answer. Is it possible to
> retrieve in one view query a list of particular documents.
> I'd like to pass a list of keys and retrieve contents of these
> documents. I cannot use range of keys using startkey and endkey.
> I need to indicate specific documents, something like that:
>    key=3D'a'&key=3D'g'&key=3D't'
> while in db there are documents with keys from 'a' to 'z'.
> I need such approach because the documents are too huge to retrieve
> them all at once and I also do not want to retrieve them one by one.
> Is it possible in CouchDB?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Micha=C5=82 Nowikowski
>

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