Metadata of a binary blob or attachment embedded in a document. (The data is external.)
Originally from CouchDB, and Sync Gateway / App Services still uses it the same way:
Attachments live in a top-level _attachments property, whose value is an object that
maps names to these metadata dicts.
Couchbase Lite, since 2.0, lets blobs live anywhere in a document:
A blob is any object with a "@type": "blob" property, as well as a digest.
Metadata of a binary blob or attachment embedded in a document. (The data is external.) Originally from CouchDB, and Sync Gateway / App Services still uses it the same way:
_attachmentsproperty, whose value is an object that maps names to these metadata dicts. Couchbase Lite, since 2.0, lets blobs live anywhere in a document:"@type": "blob"property, as well as adigest.