Chapter 4. Advanced Views
In the previous chapter, we explored the basics of the view API in Couchbase Server. Having spent a fair bit of time discussing MapReduce, we're now ready to move on to more advanced views. In this chapter, we'll dig deep into most of the common application queries you'll likely need to build an application with Couchbase.
Querying by type
One of the most basic tasks when building applications is to find all records of a particular type. In the relational world, this effort is analogous to SELECT * FROM TableName. For example, you might need to display a list of all users in your system. For this query, we aren't concerned with any particular attribute of a document other than that it is a user document:
function (doc, meta) ...
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