Hi,
I'm interested in that question too but a bit noob with CouchDB.
The goal of faceted search is to put conditions on several fields at a time,
and get the union of that set of conditions, right ?
then how would you do that in the query ?
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Clément
Le 30 mars 2011 à 05:13, Patrick Barnes a écrit :
> You can do that with a single view:
>
> In the map, emit for each field key [fieldname,fieldvalue] and value null.
> In the reduce, set it to '_count' (instead of a js function) to use the fast
> built-in reduce.
>
> Then you can query that view with
> startkey=[fieldname]&endkey=[fieldname,{}]&group=true to see all the values
> in that field.
>
> You don't really need _count, but that might be useful if you wanted to have
> some minimum of how many times a term is used before you include it.
>
> -Patrick
>
> On 30/03/2011 1:50 PM, Andrew Stuart (SuperCoders) wrote:
>> hi folks
>>
>> What's the best way to do facted search in CouchDB?
>>
>> For example consider a jobs website where the user selects from dropdown
>> lists to narrow the search location/industry/job title i.e. melbourne/IT
>> industry/software engineer or sydney/accounting/bookkeeper
>>
>> It doesn't seem practical to create a view for every combination of the
>> dropdown lists.
>>
>> any suggestions as to the best way to do this?
>>
>> thanks
>>
