On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Paul Davis <paul.joseph.da...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Renaming to _show: +1 > Keeping multiple functions: +1 > > Multiple functions would allow me to do things like: > > http://127.0.0.1:5984/db_name/_show/foo/xml/docid right? > > It seems like multiple functions would reduce complexity in the show > function implementations. Also, isn't this just the same as making > design documents have a single view? I think that'd be fairly silly. > > Also, it kinda violates the "one design doc is an application" idea. > And by violates, I means, chops the balls of the feature for anyone > trying to stick to it. :D Brilliantly poetic ;) At the very least there should be a symmetry between the doc _show api and the view _show api, and while switching on passed in parameters is technically all the same, the internals of _show_view functions sound like they'll be complex enough with head/tail/row semantics.
