Media Types for CouchDB views?
Johan Sørensen: now you can query your CouchDb views in Ruby instead of Javascript
Jan Lehnardt: As I mentioned in the Post Scriptum of an earlier post, JavaScript is not the only language that you can create CouchDB views with. You can now use PHP, too.
Question: instead of Couch.ini specifying the one and only language that views can be written in for this server, could views instead have a media type?
Yes I think it should. In fact this was shortly debated on #couchdb, damien suggested something along the lines of sending along the language whenever you defined a view [{"language": “javascript"}, "function(doc) { return doc }”], or something along those lines anyway (my memory is flawed).
And then couch.ini could simply contain a key/value of language=>path/to/language/bin.
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