Say I have a doc to save with couchDB and the doc looks like this:
{
"email": "lorem@gmail.com",
"name": "lorem",
"id": "lorem",
"password": "sha1$bc5c595c$1$d0e9fa434048a5ae1dfd23ea470ef2bb83628ed6"
}
and I want to be able to query the doc either by 'id' or 'email'. So when save this as a view I write so:
db.save('_design/users', {
byId: {
map: function(doc) {
if (doc.id && doc.email) {
emit(doc.id, doc);
emit(doc.email, doc);
}
}
}
});
And then I could query like this:
db.view('users/byId', {
key: key
}, function(err, data) {
if (err || data.length === 0) return def.reject(new Error('not found'));
data = data[0] || {};
data = data.value || {};
self.attrs = _.clone(data);
delete self.attrs._rev;
delete self.attrs._id;
def.resolve(data);
});
And it works just fine. I could load the data either by id
or email
. But I'm not sure if I should do so.
I have another solution which by saving the same doc with two different view like byId
and byEmail
, but in this way I save the same doc twice and obviously it will cost space of the database.
Not sure which solution is better.