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Subject: Re: View for multiple IDs
From: Martin Hewitt <martin@thenoi.se>
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Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 14:55:26 +0000
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Perfect, this is exactly what I was looking for, thanks David!

Martin

On 24 Feb 2011, at 14:31, David Hardtke wrote:

>=20
> You don't need a view for this.  You can use the bulk document API to =
fetch multiple documents with a single request:
>=20
> http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/HTTP_Bulk_Document_API
>=20
> On 02/24/11 05:26, Justin Walgran wrote:
>> You definitely want to POST the keys to the view. Looping over the
>> entire view in a list function slows down noticeably for a large
>> number of documents.
>>=20
>> To get the docs with the 3 keys mentioned in your example, you could
>> do something like this.
>>=20
>> curl -X POST -d '{"keys": ["asdf", "powsf", "aaaa"]}' -H
>> 'Content-Type: application/json'
>> 'http://localhost:5984/db/_design/app/_view/view_name'
>>=20
>>=20
>> Justin
>>=20
>> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 6:41 AM, Martin Hewitt<martin@thenoi.se>  =
wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>=20
>>> How would I create a view  to retrieve documents with the IDs (i.e.
>>> non-numeric, non-sequential):
>>>=20
>>> ["asdf", "powsf", "aaaa"]
>>>=20
>>> I would like the three documents that match these IDs, is this =
doable
>>> in one view or should I just retrieve them individually?
>>>=20
>>> Thanks,
>>>=20
>>> Martin
>>>=20
>=20