Re: Stored functions for views

[Glynn Bird]

There is a way to reference functions defined elsewhere in a design doc.
See:

https://blog.cloudant.com/2020/07/24/JSON-Schema-Validation.html#adding-json-schema-validation-into-a-vdu-function

I haven't done this in a while but hopefully this is useful.

Glynn

On Fri, 1 Dec 2023, 20:36 TDAS, <talldarkandstra...@icloud.com.invalid>
wrote:

> Is there an efficient way of using a stored function within views, without
> having the function redeclared for every document that’s parsed?
>
> EG if it was possible to declare a function outside the doc parser:
>
> const matcher = ({name, title}) => {/* do stuff here */}
>
> const formatter = ({info}) => {/* stuff */}
>
> function (doc) {
>   if(matcher(doc)) {
>     emit(doc._id, formatter(doc))
>   }
> }