Insert multiple documents into couchdb

Question

I'm fairly new to couchdb and am trying to insert some documents into it from a third party api.

I don't have complete control over the formatting from the source but I can get it very close to the format that _bulk_docs expects.

An example of data that can be sent is either:

[{"field1":"value1"},{"field2":"value2"}]

or

{"events":[{"field1":"value1"},{"field2":"value2"}]}

I would really like these to be separated and stored as two different documents. Bulk insert expects the key with the array to be named "docs" but I cannot change that.

Is there another way I can make this work?

I was trying to see if an update function is something that could work in this case but not sure if that gets triggered when the data comes in or if I can create multiple documents from one document using an update function.

Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks, Karan