Datastructures APIΒΆ

New in version 2.1.1.

The datastructure API allows your application to view Couchbase documents as common data structures such as lists, maps, and queues.

Datastructure operations are implemented largely using couchbase.subdocument operations, and also carry with some more efficiency.

Couchbase datatypes are still JSON underneath, and use the couchbase.bucket.Bucket.mutate_in() and couchbase.bucket.Bucket.lookup_in() methods to access the structures themselves.

The datastructures are:

  • Map: This is similar to a Python dict. It is represented as a JSON object (i.e. {}). Maps can be manipulated using the map_* methods below.
  • List: This is similar to a Python list. It is represented as a JSON array ([]). Lists can be accessed using the list_* methods below.
  • Set: This is like a List, but also contains methods allowing to avoid inserting duplicates. All List methods may be used on Sets, and vice versa. Sets can be accessed using the set_* methods below, as well as various list_* methods.
  • Queues: This is like a list, but also features a queue_pop method which can make it suitable for a light weight FIFO queue. You can access queues using the queue_* methods below.

Note

Datastructures are just JSON documents and can be accessed using any of the full-document (e.g. upsert() and get()) or sub-document (e.g. lookup_in() and mutate_in()) methods.

class couchbase.bucket.Bucket