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Package should prefer _selector filters over JavaScript filter functions #138

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Cloudant / CouchDB has supported using Query selectors as an alternative to JavaScript filter functions for over a year. Query selectors have a significant performance advantage over using JavaScript filters - they can be roughly an order of magnitude more efficient - and do not require users to inject a design document prior to reading changes.

The OpenWhisk package should strongly push users towards using Query selectors in favour of JS functions. Essentially the changes would be:

  • use filter=_selector instead of asking users to specify a design doc/filter
  • make a POST request to _changes instead of GET
  • in the request body, include a "selector" field containing the Query selector to match documents against.

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