Simplify Couchdb JSON response

Question

I\'m storing location data in Couchdb, and am looking for a way to get an array of just the values, instead of key: value for every record. For example:

The current resp

Answer 1

You can use _show and _list functions, they take either a document or a view (respectively) and can send back a transformed response in whatever format you need. (in this case, JSON)

Update: I ran a simple test with the data you provided here on my own CouchDB. Here's the list function I ended up writing. Customize it to fit your needs. :)

function (head, req) {
    // specify that we're providing a JSON response
    provides('json', function() {
        // create an array for our result set
        var results = [];

        while (row = getRow()) {
            results.push({
                city: row.value.city,
                address: row.value.address
            });
        }

        // make sure to stringify the results :)
        send(JSON.stringify(results));
    });
}