How do I consume a CouchDB view on an Android offline?

Question

For example we have created this view:
http://cdb.linkaform.com/client_126_catalog_records/_design/paises/_view/paises-key

How can we consume this View on an Android? We are using the CouchBase and Cloudant library.

Answer 1

There is no support for using remote views at least in Cloudant Sync.

The approach in both libraries is to replicate the documents into the local storage using the native replication mechanism. Once the information is replicated you should use the data selection mechanism provided by each library.

• Cloudant Sync provides a Mango-like query syntax that allows to retrieve the documents you require. [https://github.com/cloudant/sync-android/blob/master/doc/query.md]

• Couchbase Mobile 2.0, includes a similar query mechanism [https://developer.couchbase.com/documentation/mobile/2.0/guides/couchbase-lite/native-api/query/index.html], previous versions support the definition of local views with this purpose.