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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:09:54 -0800
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Subject: Re: view syntax for retrieving object without a field
From: Adam Wolff <awolff@gmail.com>
To: user@couchdb.apache.org, markus@buyways.nl
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In your first example, you wrote

  if (doc.field == "undefined")


I think you meant

  if (typeof doc.field == "undefined")


But I usually write

  if (doc.field === void 0)

if I really want to check for undefined, since "undefined" is not a js
keyword; it's just a conventional variable that has no value.

A

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Markus Jelsma <markus@buyways.nl> wrote:

> Hello,
>
>
> For the sake of clarity and reusability i have added this problem to the
> wiki [1]. Please check and modify or extend if there are some flaws or if
> something is missing.
>
> [1]:
> http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/View_Snippets#documents_without_a_field
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Markus Jelsma said:
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> > I have some documents, all with a `name` field and some with a country
> > field  defined. Using the map function below i can retrieve all
> > documents that have  no country field defined.
> >
> > function (doc)
> > {
> >   var
> >
> >   if (doc.country == "undefined")
> >   {
> >     emit(doc.name, null);
> >   }
> > }
> >
> > I do believe this could be very unusable in many situations, especially
> > if you  need to retrieve documents based on the absence of a lot of
> > different fields.
> >
> > Let's provide you with a better alternative, you need only one view to
> > handle  all possible negations, you only need to specify on which
> > negations you want  to select, check it out!
> >
> > function (doc)
> > {
> >   var fields = new Array("name", "country");
> >
> >   for (idx in fields)
> >   {
> >     if (typeof eval("doc." + fields[idx]) == "undefined")
> >     {
> >       emit(fields[idx], null);
> >     }
> >   }
> > }
> >
> > Now you can just query the view with your key and retrieve all documents
> >  without that field.
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
>
>
>
>

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