On 13 March 2012 15:30, Dale Harvey <d...@arandomurl.com> wrote: > So I was trying to implement the ability for logged in users to subscribe > to the changes feed for updates to their own documents (its currently admin > only), its a simple patch but its not very clean (mostly because the we > dont want to have the changes feed read the full document) > > A way that I could implement it, that seems a lot more globally applicable > and applies cleaner, is to allow the ddoc author to enforce filters to > happen on non admin access to _changes and replication (on any database) > > This should negatively affect anything else, filters are already used and > supported in both places, I have also seen it asked for regularly in the > context of replication, ddoc authors could specify exactly what users are > allowed to replicate, the enforced filter would override any users filter > > Obviously I meant "should not negatively affect" :)
> As far as I can tell the only problem would be how to have the author > specify the enforcement, apart from that it should apply cleanly, > introduces a fairly large amount of new functionality and adds very little > overhead > > Ideas? > > Jan mentioned this could be used more widely for updates / shows / lists, > that is starting to sound more complicated and does start introducing > problems, I would prefer to look at the simple case of filters for changes > / replication for now, but if there was an even more global solution that > applied cleanly, I would be happy to > > >
