Greetings, So I'm in a situation here, and perhaps I'm missing something obvious.
I have four views. They work fine. Two of them have reduce functions, and two of them don't. On views with a reduce function, CouchDB sends reduced replies unless you specifically tell it not to. Anyway, in this particular instance, I want to query a view that may or may not have a reduce function, but I want the non-reduced results. This seems simple enough...just add ?reduce=false. However, if you send ?reduce=false to a map-only view, you get an error from CouchDB. I also can find no way to ask if a view is a map-view or a map-reduce-view. In other words, if I have a view that may or may not have a reduce function, the only way I can see to get non-reduced results is to send a request with ?reduce=false, catch the exception that's raised if it was a map-only view, and send the query again without ?reduce=false. This feels quite clunky to me and not at all relaxing. I understand the strict error checking, but I suppose it seems there should either be a salient way to see which request form I should use, or there should be a request form that works in both cases? If I don't want reduced results, after all, it shouldn't matter if I have a reduce function. Which brings me to the mailing list. Am I missing something? I looked in the manual, and found nothing. Is this in CouchDB? If so, how do I do it? Best Regards, Luke
