combine multiple documents in a couchdb view

Question

In couchdb, I need to represent some data in the following format, a outer container that references other documents inside an array.

I want to keep these documents

Answer 1

You can achieve this using couchdb linked documents

here is how the view will look like

  function(doc){
    if(doc.items)
    doc.items.forEach(function(item){
          emit(doc._id,{_id:item});
      })
 }

now you can query the view with include_docs=true parameter and you should have the desired result.