How do I interact with views?

[danhab99]

I'm migrating a project from MongoDB+Mongoose to CouchDB+Ottoman but there are some features I'm not sure if are missing.

• I have a post model and a comment models that include the ID of a post. In mongoose I defined a virtual field to count these comments. I know CouchDB has views just like any database but I can't figure out how to interact with them through Ottoman. Any guides or documentation?

• I also use virtual fields to populate a posts comments but I can't find any mention of "populating" in the Ottoman docs. Can we do cross-schema populating with Ottoman the same way as I did with Mongoose?

[AV25242]

Hello @danhab99 sorry for the delayed response.

• Views are deprecated and will eventually be removed, so we don't encourage usage of Views. Can you write a N1QL Query or create an Ottoman pre-hook to accomplish what you need ?

• Yes Ottoman supports ref and populate. You can find it in our documentation