Unable to query views

Hi,

After seeding the ddocs, and seeing a 'ddocs updated!' message in the console, when I try to query it throws a NotFoundError with ddoc books has no view named byTitle.

db.query('books/byTitle', { key: title })
.then(function(result) {
    console.log(result) 
}).catch(function(err){
    console.log(err)
})

When I examine the _design/books object in the IndexedDB through chrome dev tools, I can see that the view does actually exist.

Thought it might be related to nolanlawson/pouchdb-find#163 - but I am never able to get it working, even after a refresh/second query.

Any ideas?

Thanks

I should note that I'm trying to use this inside of a frontend React app, interacting with a local database... Is this meant to be used with a remote db only, or something?

[colinskow]

@paulinder this is due to a breaking change that I accidentally introduced in the latest version. This will be fixed soon. Meanwhile you need to add a map object to each view:

var ddoc = {
 person: {
   views: {
     byFirstName: { map: function (doc) {
       emit(doc.firstName);
     } },
     byLastName: { map: function (doc) {
       emit(doc.lastName);
     } },
     byFullName: { map: function (doc) {
       emit(doc.firstName + ' ' + doc.lastName);
     } }
   }
 }
};

Apologies!!!

Thanks for your quick reply - very helpful.

I think you meant to have switched each map with each view name. For example, byFirstName and the corresponding map should be switched.

I was able to get some results by making this change. Thank you.

[colinskow]

Yup :-) I'm going to keep this open until it is fixed. Next release you won't need to add map.

[tohagan]

Each view needs both map and optional reduce properties. Not supporting reduce would be a bug.

So I think the map is still needed. Yes?

You could make map optional (replacing myview: function() ... with myview: { map: function() ... }) but IMHO think this complicates the API.

Note: If you kept map and reduce you'd need to update user-design.js code in superlogin.

So in summary I'd say the only bug is the documentation (README and example code) and that keeping map is just fine.

[colinskow]

Yes, I'm going to fix this up very soon so it works exactly as specified in the documentation. There was no test for this, so I accidentally broke it last release.

[tohagan]

Just a tad confused by this last comment ... So I think what you said was that the existing docs are correct and you therefore won't be supporting reduce views? Was hoping to use reduce views in a current project but so I'd be forced to fork and fix up my own which I'd rather avoid. Can you please clarify if you're supporting the reduce property.

[AnasMunir]

hi @colinskow is the bug fixed yet in pouchdb?