Question about views and filters

[Daan van Berkel]

I am working on a project which uses backbone-couchdb.

I have trouble getting view and filter to work together. It could be the case that it depends on my understand of CouchDB, the backbone-couchdb connector or both.

Context

I am saving notes. An example can be found below. (Id's and revision are striped for brevity.)

{ "key":"notes","value":{"content":"Example","active":true,"edit":false,"x":10,"y":10, "user":"dvb","collection":"notes"}}

With a view active_notes:

function(doc) {
    if (doc.collection == 'notes' && doc.active) {
        emit(doc.collection, doc);
    }
}

and a filter per_user:

function(doc, req) {
    if (doc.collection == 'notes' && doc.user == req.userCtx.name) {
        return true;
    }
    return false;
}

I would expect the following Backbone.Collection to only retrieve the "active" documents from the logged in user.

Backbone.Collection.extend({
  url : "/notes",
  db : {
    view : "active_notes",
    filter : Backbone.couch_connector.config.ddoc_name + "/per_user"
  },
  model : NoteModel
});

Instead all "active" documents are retrieved.

Care to shed some light on the interplay between views and filters?

[Daan van Berkel]

I have reread couchdb documentation and my expectations about views and filters were wrong.

I am working in the following direction. Create a view which emits an array key and use view parameters