Android: _id starting with prefix

[Jan Muller]

Hi, I am just thinking about generating _id like a prefix + uuid ..., where prefix is a model type. I think it could be better, because i would have sorted documents by model type in main index so i can query on all_docs view. Are there any cons with this approach? 

[Jens Alfke]

> On Jan 21, 2015, at 1:53 AM, Jan Muller <mull...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi, I am just thinking about generating _id like a prefix + uuid ..., where prefix is a model type. I think it could be better, because i would have sorted documents by model type in main index so i can query on all_docs view. Are there any cons with this approach?

Sure, there’s no problem with generating your own doc IDs. All you do is call documentWithID instead of newDocument.

—Jens