Thanks, Jan. I tried that, but it produced three separate documents. I was hoping to get everything in a single document.
On Fri, Dec 16, 2016, at 02:10 AM, Jan Lehnardt wrote: > > > On 15 Dec 2016, at 20:56, David Squier <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Greetings, > > > > > > > > I have a master document that contains multiple references to child > > documents. I want to use the Linked Documents feature to "compose" a > > master document that replaces all the child document references (i.e., > > keys) with the actual document contents. > > > > > > I can do this with a single linked document using the following emit > > in a view: > > > > > > emit(doc._id, { _id: "child_document_1" }); > > Assuming: > > { > _id: “main_doc”, > "child_documents”: [ > "child_doc_id_1”, > "child_doc_id_2”, > "child_doc_id_3” > ] > > } > > then > > function(doc) { > doc.child_documents.forEach(function(child_doc) { > emit(doc._id, { _id: child_doc._id}) > }) > } > > will do the trick. > > Best > Jan > -- > > > > > > > > > > With the include_docs=true, this populates the document contents for > > child_document_1 as expected. However, I have not found a way do this > > for multiple documents. > > > > > > For example, I'd like to do something like the following: > > > > > > > > emit(doc._id, "children": { _id: "child_document_1", _id: > > "child_document_2" }); > > > > > > And have both child documents replaced with their document bodies._id. > > However, it appears the Linked Documents syntax is specific in wanting a > > single document referenced and therefore only allowing that documents > > contents to be populated. > > > > > > Is this even possible? If not through Views, through some other > > mechanism? > > > > > > NOTE: I do not want to generate multiple documents (i.e., use multiple > > emit() statements) as my goal is to return a single document. > > > > > > Thanks much! > > > > > > -- > Professional Support for Apache CouchDB: > https://neighbourhood.ie/couchdb-support/ >
