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Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 11:22:59 -0800
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Subject: Re: How to pass parameters to views?
From: Randall Leeds <randall.leeds@gmail.com>
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It cannot be done due to the nature of views and the way couchdb does
map-reduce.
View output should be deterministic and as such cannot depend on
query-time parameters.
This is what allows the index to be build incrementally and the reason
why a _list function runs through the whole result set every time you
query it but views can be retrieved with ?stale=3Dok and aren't re-run
for every request.

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 09:28, Wordit Ltd <wordituk@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Can parameters be passed to views? I know you can use them in updaters.
> I hoped this would work, but it did not:
>
> function(doc, req) {
> var myparam =3D req.query.myparam;
> ...
>
> URL: .../view_name?myparam=3D"foo"
>
>
> I need to pass two parameters to a for loop which is pulling data from
> an array/list.
> I have data stored in the array "words".
>
> function(doc) {
> =C2=A0for (i=3D0; i < doc.words.length;i++) {
> =C2=A0emit(i, doc.words[i]);
> =C2=A0}
> }
>
> This outputs ALL items in the array. I want to pass in A and B as
> params to the for loop.
> Can this be done, or is there another way to achieve it?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Marcus
>