Syncing with couchdb : are views pulled?

[विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)]

Hi!

I've got a couchbase lite db, which I pull-replicate (using Java/ scala couchbase lite code) with a couchdb database. The couchdb database has some views (named _design/chapter_index ). But, from some tests (booksDb.getExistingView("chapter_index") returns null), I suspect that such views don't appear in the couchbaselite db even after syncing. 

Is this expected? Is there some way to sync such views/ indexes into couchbaselite db?

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Vishvas /विश्वासः

[Brendan Duddridge]

Only documents are synced. You'll just have to define the same views in Couchbase Lite that you have in CouchDB. Then they'll be maintained by Couchbase Lite.

[Jens Alfke]

On Jul 7, 2017, at 3:27 PM, विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki) <vishvas...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I've got a couchbase lite db, which I pull-replicate (using Java/ scala couchbase lite code) with a couchdb database. The couchdb database has some views (named _design/chapter_index ). But, from some tests (booksDb.getExistingView("chapter_index") returns null), I suspect that such views don't appear in the couchbaselite db even after syncing.

Couchbase Lite doesn’t support JavaScript map functions by default; there’s an extra library you’ll need to add, which should come with it. (I’m not sure about Java, but this is true for iOS/Mac.)

Once you’ve got that set up, you need to use the right view name. Since design docs can contain multiple views, you have to use a view name that’s the design doc's ID plus a slash plus the view name. E.g. “chapter_index/someview”.

—Jens