Creates (and executes) a temporary view based on the view function supplied in the JSON request. For example:

POST http://couchdb:5984/recipes/_temp_view
Content-Type: application/json

{
   "map" : "function(doc) { if (doc.value > 9995) { emit(null, doc.value); } }"
}

The resulting JSON response is the result from the execution of the temporary view:

{
   "total_rows" : 3,
   "rows" : [
      {
         "value" : 9998.41913029012,
         "id" : "05361cc6aa42033878acc1bacb1f39c2",
         "key" : null
      },
      {
         "value" : 9998.94149934853,
         "id" : "1f443f471e5929dd7b252417625ed170",
         "key" : null
      },
      {
         "value" : 9998.01511339154,
         "id" : "1f443f471e5929dd7b252417629c102b",
         "key" : null
      }
   ],
   "offset" : 0
}

The arguments also available to standard view requests also apply to temporary views, but the execution of the view may take some time as it relies on being executed at the time of the request. In addition to the time taken, they are also computationally very expensive to produce. You should use a defined view if you want to achieve the best performance.

For more information, see ???.