Views 3.0.0 ​

Breeze ODM offers a way to programmatically create and use views for your application.

createView ​

Views are very useful when your queries become complex, or you have to do many queries to build your data. You can create a view that gathers that data and makes it easy to query afterward. Views also will boost performance for those complex queries. We have seen betwen 50-125x boost in performance on some of our own projects using views.

the createView method will perform a viewExists before running the creation process. 3 things can happen. First, your view creation process completes without any issues. In this case, you will receive a true boolean value. If the view already exists, you will receive a false boolean value. If any other problems occur, it will throw an exception with the reason.

$this->createView('name', ['...your pipeline...']);

viewExists ​

This enables you to look up if a view already exists with the given name.

if ($this->viewExists('name_here')) {
    // do nothing!
    return;
}

useView ​

You could always create a model that uses a view's name as the collection name. But useView offers a way to call a view within a model that is using a real collection. This enables you to not create models just for this purpose.

$this->useView('view_name')->find(['query here'])->exec();