Lab 6.1 purpose and use indexyear.json file

SumitVedpathak

HI All,
I am still not able to understand in Lab 6.1, on page 4, we are creating an indexYear.json file in META-INF/statedb/couchdb/indexes folder. How this is being used to form an index. I cannot see any reference to this file in our smart contract.
Can anyone elaborate on this?

Bobbijn

@Sumitvedpathak Hello, Lets see if we can get to he bottom of this. The index is created and packaged with the chaincode in the META-INF/statedb/couchdb/indexes directory. Any indexes in this directory will be packaged up with the chaincode for deployment.
For more information here is a link to documentation that might help you, https://hyperledger-fabric.readthedocs.io/en/latest/couchdb_tutorial.html?highlight=creating an index#create-an-index.
Let me know if this helps.
Bobbi