multi-key support for views, temp-views, and alldocs

lib/couchrest.rb

@@ -108,8 +108,8 @@ module CouchRest
       JSON.parse(RestClient.delete(uri))
     end
   
-    def paramify_url url, params = nil
-      if params
+    def paramify_url url, params = {}
+      if params && !params.empty?
         query = params.collect do |k,v|
           v = v.to_json if %w{key startkey endkey}.include?(k.to_s)
           "#{k}=#{CGI.escape(v.to_s)}"

lib/couchrest/core/database.rb

@@ -29,21 +29,33 @@ module CouchRest
     end
     
     # Query the <tt>_all_docs</tt> view. Accepts all the same arguments as view.
-    def documents params = nil
+    def documents params = {}
+      keys = params.delete(:keys)
       url = CouchRest.paramify_url "#{@root}/_all_docs", params
-      CouchRest.get url  
+      if keys
+        CouchRest.post(url, {:keys => keys})
+      else
+        CouchRest.get url
+      end
     end
   
     # POST a temporary view function to CouchDB for querying. This is not recommended, as you don't get any performance benefit from CouchDB's materialized views. Can be quite slow on large databases.
-    def temp_view funcs, params = nil
+    def temp_view funcs, params = {}
+      keys = params.delete(:keys)
+      funcs = funcs.merge({:keys => keys}) if keys
       url = CouchRest.paramify_url "#{@root}/_temp_view", params
       JSON.parse(RestClient.post(url, funcs.to_json, {"Content-Type" => 'application/json'}))
     end
   
     # Query a CouchDB view as defined by a <tt>_design</tt> document. Accepts paramaters as described in http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/HttpViewApi
-    def view name, params = nil
+    def view name, params = {}
+      keys = params.delete(:keys)
       url = CouchRest.paramify_url "#{@root}/_view/#{name}", params
-      CouchRest.get url
+      if keys
+        CouchRest.post(url, {:keys => keys})
+      else
+        CouchRest.get url
+      end
     end
     
     # GET a document from CouchDB, by id. Returns a Ruby Hash.

spec/couchrest/core/database_spec.rb

@@ -22,17 +22,21 @@ describe CouchRest::Database do
       rs['rows'].select{|r|r['key'] == 'wild' && r['value'] == 'and random'}.length.should == 1
     end
     it "should work with a range" do
-      rs = @db.temp_view(@temp_view,{:startkey => "b", :endkey => "z"})
+      rs = @db.temp_view(@temp_view, :startkey => "b", :endkey => "z")
       rs['rows'].length.should == 2
     end
     it "should work with a key" do
-      rs = @db.temp_view(@temp_view,{:key => "wild"})
+      rs = @db.temp_view(@temp_view, :key => "wild")
       rs['rows'].length.should == 1
     end
     it "should work with a count" do
-      rs = @db.temp_view(@temp_view,{:count => 1})
+      rs = @db.temp_view(@temp_view, :count => 1)
       rs['rows'].length.should == 1
     end
+    it "should work with multi-keys" do
+      rs = @db.temp_view(@temp_view, :keys => ["another", "wild"])
+      rs['rows'].length.should == 2
+    end
   end
 
   describe "map/reduce query with _temp_view in Javascript" do
@@ -98,17 +102,21 @@ describe CouchRest::Database do
       rs['rows'].select{|r|r['key'] == 'wild' && r['value'] == 'and random'}.length.should == 1
     end
     it "should work with a range" do
-      rs = @db.view('first/test',{:startkey => "b", :endkey => "z"})
+      rs = @db.view('first/test', :startkey => "b", :endkey => "z")
       rs['rows'].length.should == 2
     end
     it "should work with a key" do
-      rs = @db.view('first/test',{:key => "wild"})
+      rs = @db.view('first/test', :key => "wild")
       rs['rows'].length.should == 1
     end
     it "should work with a count" do
-      rs = @db.view('first/test',{:count => 1})
+      rs = @db.view('first/test', :count => 1)
       rs['rows'].length.should == 1
     end
+    it "should work with multi-keys" do
+      rs = @db.view('first/test', :keys => ["another", "wild"])
+      rs['rows'].length.should == 2
+    end
   end
 
   describe "GET (document by id) when the doc exists" do
@@ -426,6 +434,9 @@ describe CouchRest::Database do
     ds['rows'].length.should == 4
     ds = @db.documents(:key => 'doc0')
     ds['rows'].length.should == 1
+    
+    rs = @db.documents :keys => ["doc0", "doc7"]
+    rs['rows'].length.should == 2
   end
   
   describe "deleting a database" do