Couchbase Essentials

Couchbase SDKs and views

For another perspective on your view, click on the link right above the grid of results. This link will lead to a JSON view of our index:

{
    "total_rows": 5891,
    "rows": [
        {
            "id": "sullivan_s_black_forest_brew_haus_grill",
            "key": ".38 Special Bitter",
            "value": null
        },
        {
            "id": "512_brewing_company-512_alt",
            "key": "(512) ALT",
            "value": null
        },
        {
            "id": "512_brewing_company-512_bruin",
            "key": "(512) Bruin",
            "value": null
        }      
    ]
}

The client libraries will use this JSON when querying a view. This view also introduces an important element of the Couchbase Server view API—the fact that it's HTTP-based. Unlike the key/value API, which is a binary protocol, views are queried over a RESTful API, with parameter values supplied as query ...