On 05.03.2009, at 23:43, Damien Katz wrote:
On Mar 5, 2009, at 5:34 PM, Jan Lehnardt wrote:
On 5 Mar 2009, at 21:38, Christopher Lenz wrote:
Actually, I'd go even further, and suggest that the "show" and
"list" features should be part of that CouchApp plugin, and not
actually included with CouchDB itself. You really only need those
features when you're developing CouchApp-style applications.
Moving them into a corresponding plugin would help keep CouchDB
itself lean and clean.
show and list are useful in the non-couchapp case. a list gives you
RSS/Atom feeds on views (say blog posts or events) for free. a show
would help you to mangle your data for other systems that e.g. like
to consume XML. I like that this can be done without a middleware
layer.
Not only that, it's pretty much mandatory if we want to be
completely RESTful, that is too allow apps to be spiderable and docs
to be bookmarkable and viewable to non-js browsers.
But how is that relevant to applications that do *not* follow the
CouchApp model, but rather have a traditional web/app-server sitting
in front of CouchDB?
Cheers,
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Christopher Lenz
cmlenz at gmx.de
http://www.cmlenz.net/
