Pouchdb document id complex key

Question

I know views can be built using complex keys (an array basically).

But, do normal documents also support that? I want to avoid views as performance on phones can be very slow with many many docs. So I'm using the "Use and abuse your keys" approach.

So that is why I would need complex keys so I can use startkey and endkey on those.

Answer 1

Yep, it's totally possible. Read this blog post, skip to "use and abuse your doc ids."

Basically what you do is use the PouchDB Collate plugin to serialize your complex key into a string, and then use that for the _id. Then lookups work exactly the same as with the query() API, using startkey, endkey, keys, whatever you like.