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From: Robert Dionne <dionne@dionne-associates.com>
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Subject: rendering docs in Futon
Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2009 11:04:25 -0500
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I have what I guess is a design question about Futon:

I've been playing and prototyping with FTI in couchdb [1,2] and have =
tweaked Futon to replace the "Jump to ID" feature with "Search For:" [3] =
and an interesting question comes up. Currently I"m indexing all the =
values in the docs and returning the slot names as well as the doc ids =
in the search results. Even though couchdb is schema-less, there is an =
implicit schema within a given database as a rule. This is what allows =
us to define a Document object in Lucene which contains the fields we =
want to index up front.

In this approach I'm indexing everything but of course in practice  I =
may only be interested in particular slots like "PreferredName" or =
"GeneEncodes". So the question I have is how to control that in the =
search field, because it is database dependent. Should I let the display =
slot in jquery.suggest be configurable? I suppose one approach would be =
to index views rather that the entire document. This would be closer to =
how Lucene indexing works where the view itself defines the fields of =
interest. Still there may be multiple fields, so the question of how to =
configure the display remains.

Anyway if this makes sense to anyone I'd appreciate your thoughts.

Cheers,

Bob


[1]  http://github.com/bdionne/indexer
[2]  http://github.com/bdionne/couchdb/tree/lucille
[3]  http://dionne.posterous.com/searching-in-futon-0