private JSONArray getComments(String itemNumber) {
    JSONArray returnArray = new JSONArray();
    CouchDbConnector dbc = _db.createConnector(dbname, true);

    Map<String, String> doc = new HashMap<String, String>();

    ViewQuery query = new ViewQuery().allDocs().includeDocs(true);
    List<Map> result = dbc.queryView(query, Map.class);
    JSONArray jsonresult = new JSONArray();
    for (Map element : result) {
      JSONObject obj = new JSONObject();
      obj.putAll(element);
      if (itemNumber == null || obj.get("itemNumber").equals(itemNumber)) jsonresult.add(obj);
    }

    System.out.println(jsonresult.toString());

    return jsonresult;
  }