Split Couchbase Documents

The Couchbase V1 connector uses the Cross-Datacenter Replication (XDCR) feature of Couchbase to retrieve data stored in Couchbase continuously in real-time.

Because Couchbase has a flexible data model, documents may have a nested JSON structure. It is possible to split nested documents with a splitpath property, which uses an XPath-style path to the element to split on. These paths do not accept wildcards.

These paths do not accept wildcards.

For example, if you have a document that looks like this:

{
  "first": "John",
  "last": "Doe",
  "grade": 8,
  "exams": [
      {
        "subject": "Maths",
        "test"   : "term1",
        "marks":90},
        {
         "subject": "Biology",
         "test"   : "term1",
         "marks":86}
      ]
}

If we want to split this document on the exams element and create two documents, each with a different subject, we would define "splitpath":"/exams" in our datasource definition.

When using the Fusion UI to configure the datasource, enter the path without quotes.

The output from retrieving the document should look like this:

{
  "first": "John",
  "last": "Doe",
  "grade": 8,
  "exams": [
      {
        "subject": "Maths",
        "test"   : "term1",
        "marks":90
      }
    ]
},
{
  "first": "John",
  "last": "Doe",
  "grade": 8,
  "exams": [
        {
         "subject": "Biology",
         "test"   : "term1",
         "marks":86
        }
      ]
}