[COUCHDB-589] Simplify Query Server interface and Design Handlers

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.11
• Component/s: JavaScript View Server
• Assignee: John Christopher Anderson
• Reporter: John Christopher Anderson
• Created: 02/Dec/09 23:34
• Updated: 04/Feb/10 23:10
• Resolved: 04/Feb/10 23:10

Description

This patch refactors list, show, update, filter, and view handling to have a unified interface for loading the design document and functions from it. It is a step on the path to removing a lot of function src passing overhead from the view server protocol.

The patch also removes some old part of the API while improving other parts of the API.

The big changes:

Load the design document before handing it to the design document handlers. This removes a lot of duplicated code.

Remove /db/_view handler. I think it's in our interest to remove the last bits of the old-style API before 0.11.

I also clean up some rough edges in the API.

I plan to commit this patch soon, but want to give people an opportunity to look it over.