I have a collection of events that look like
{
_id: BSONID
name: "event_name",
values: {a: 10, b: 1000, c: 50}
}
I'm trying to use mapReduce them using
map = function() {
return emit([this.name, this.values['a']], this.values['b']);
}
reduce = function(key, values) {
// stuff
}
collection.mapReduce(map, reduce, { out: { inline: 1 } }, callback);
However, I would like to be able to dynamically change which values I map against. In essence, I'd like to have
var key = 'a';
var value = 'b';
map = function ()
{
return emit([this.name, this.values[key]], this.values[value]);
}
The problem is that the execution context isn't passed to mongodb. Any solution that doesn't rely on using string for functions?
Yes, you can pass a "scope" variable to MapReduce:
scope = {key : "a", value : "b"};
collection.mapReduce(map, reduce, {scope : scope, out: { inline: 1 } }, callback);