How would I query keys such that it would partially match? - couchdb

Question

Let's take this document for example:
{
"id":1
"planet":"earth-616"
"data":[
["wolverine","mutant"],
["Storm","mutant"],
["Mark Zuckerberg","human"]]
}
I created a search index to index the name and type, for example if searched for name:wolverine or type:mutant I'd get the document that has it. But as per my requirement I don't want the whole document, I only want ["wolverine","mutant"] I've created a view that outputs as:
{
"id":1,
"key":"earth-616",
"value":["earth-616","wolverine","mutant"]
}
Then I found out I can query only with keys. (Is it possible to create search indexes on views?, Couldn't find anything in the documentation)
Or should I create views along with the one above like this:
{
"id":1,
"key":"wolverine",
"value":["earth-616","wolverine","mutant"]
}
And
{
"id":,
"key":"mutant"
"value":["earth-616","wolverine","mutant"]
}
This way I can query with keys that I want but I can't seem to partial match keys(Am I missing something?)

Answer 1

If you need the output to be exactly as described then I believe you have to use views, and to support wildcard searches I believe you will have to index every substring of a key.
One alternative is to use Cloudant Query, although admittedly you cannot get the exact output you are looking for. If you issue a query like so:
{
"selector": {
"_id": {
"$gt": 0
},
"data": {
"$elemMatch": {
"$elemMatch": {
"$regex": "(?i)zuck"
}
}
}
},
"fields": [
"data"
]
}
The result will be the entire data array:
{
"data": [
["wolverine", "mutant"],
["Storm", "mutant"],
["Mark Zuckerberg", "human"]
]
}