On 10/11/2008, at 8:06 AM, Sho Fukamachi wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> This is probably a really simple question, but for some reason* I  
> can't figure it out.
>
> (* reason is most like extreme dumbness on my part)
>
> I've got a bunch of views where i have something like this:
>
> get_all_by_field:
>
> map: if (doc.type == 'my_doc') emit(doc.field, doc);
>
> count_all_by_field:
>
> map: if (doc.type == 'my_doc') emit(doc.field, 1);
> reduce: function(keys, values) { return sum(values) }
>
> That works fine, but seems like it could be more elegant ..
>
> I thought I'd be "clever" and try to combine the two, so I could get  
> the "search" output by calling the map alone, and then getting the  
> count by turning on reduce, something like this:
>
> map: function(doc) {
>  if (doc.type == 'my_doc') emit(doc.field, [doc, 1]);
>    }
> reduce: function(keys, values) { return sum(values[1]) }

In any case, this isn't valid logic - you need to do something like

theSum = 0;
for (var i in values)
   theSum = theSum + values[i][1];
return theSum;

Antony Blakey
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