Map reduce on top of bucket's subset

Couchbase Server
1

Hi,
Let’s assume that we have a bucket with 100 docs and I want to apply my view on top of a specific well known in advance subset of the bucket. For example let’s say that I know the ids of the docs in advance.

What is the best way in order to tackle this?

Thank you in advance.

2

you can filter view results by those keys (not the range). see keys argument

Example.
Lets imagine we have a view, which returns results like this:

$ curl http://node.avsej.net:8092/default/_design/simple/_view/test
{"total_rows":6,"rows":[
{"id":"41070cfc-a85c-424c-9b87-fce0616c77c1","key":"2013-11-11-20-28-21","value":null},
{"id":"bb275e3c-54da-4e85-8cc3-21defff4e278","key":"2013-11-13-1-41-7","value":null},
{"id":"00000","key":"2013-11-8-1-17-46","value":null},
{"id":"a4a6cf44-8a82","key":"2013-11-8-1-17-46","value":null},
{"id":"a4a6cf44-8a82-494a-a2b9","key":"2013-11-8-1-17-46","value":null},
{"id":"a4a6cf44-8a82-494a-a2b9-f6a3ec629f17","key":"2013-11-8-1-17-46","value":null}
]
}

Then you need to leave only keys from the set [“2013-11-11-20-28-21”, “2013-11-13-1-41-7”]. Just pass it as an argument

$ curl 'http://node.avsej.net:8092/default/_design/simple/_view/test?keys=%5B%222013-11-11-20-28-21%22%2C%222013-11-13-1-41-7%22%5D'
{"total_rows":6,"rows":[
{"id":"41070cfc-a85c-424c-9b87-fce0616c77c1","key":"2013-11-11-20-28-21","value":null},
{"id":"bb275e3c-54da-4e85-8cc3-21defff4e278","key":"2013-11-13-1-41-7","value":null}
]
}

If you would like to avoid urlencoding and/or your list of keys quite big to be placed into query string, you can put keys argument into the request body (other filters still should be in query string)

$ curl -H'Content-Type: application/json' -XPOST -d'{"keys": ["2013-11-11-20-28-21","2013-11-13-1-41-7"]}' http://node.avsej.net:8092/default/_design/simple/_view/test
{"total_rows":6,"rows":[
{"id":"41070cfc-a85c-424c-9b87-fce0616c77c1","key":"2013-11-11-20-28-21","value":null},
{"id":"bb275e3c-54da-4e85-8cc3-21defff4e278","key":"2013-11-13-1-41-7","value":null}
]
}