couchDB sort result array by date if date is stored in an array of integers?

Question

I'm storing couchDB docs and they have an attribute date which I want to sort by.

{

  ...blahblah...

  "date": [
    2015,
    5,
    16
  ]
}

I can't seem to figure out how to make a view that allows me to supply a startdate=[2015,5,1]&enddate=[2015,5,31] query. I want to get the stuff for May (month 5)

Answer 1

It should be as simple as:

function (doc) {
  emit(doc.date);
}

Then your query needs to be: start_key=[2015,5,1]&end_key=[2015,5,31]

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