CouchDB “Join” two documents

Question

I have two documents that looks a bit like so:

Doc
{
  _id: AAA,
  creator_id: ...,
  data: ...
}

DataKey
{
  _id: ...,
  credits_left: 500,
  times_used: 0,
           


        

Answer 1

I think what you want is

function (doc)
{
  if (doc.type == "Doc")
  {
    emit([doc._id, 0], doc);
  }

  if(doc.type == "DataKey")
  {
    emit([doc.data_id, 1], doc);
  }
}

Now, query the view with key=["AAA"] and you will see a list of all docs. The first one will be the real "Doc" document. All the rest will be "DataKey" documents which reference the first doc.

This is a common technique, called CouchDB view collation.