Accessing collections

These functions implement the HTTP API for accessing collections.

database.collection

database.collection(collectionName): DocumentCollection

Returns a DocumentCollection instance for the given collection name.

Arguments

• collectionName: string

  Name of the edge collection.

Examples

const db = new Database();
const collection = db.collection("potatoes");

database.edgeCollection

database.edgeCollection(collectionName): EdgeCollection

Returns an EdgeCollection instance for the given collection name.

Arguments

• collectionName: string

  Name of the edge collection.

Examples

const db = new Database();
const collection = db.edgeCollection("potatoes");

database.listCollections

async database.listCollections([excludeSystem]): Array<Object>

Fetches all collections from the database and returns an array of collection descriptions.

Arguments

• excludeSystem: boolean (Default: true)

  Whether system collections should be excluded.

Examples

const db = new Database();

const collections = await db.listCollections();
// collections is an array of collection descriptions
// not including system collections

// -- or --

const collections = await db.listCollections(false);
// collections is an array of collection descriptions
// including system collections

database.collections

async database.collections([excludeSystem]): Array<Collection>

Fetches all collections from the database and returns an array of DocumentCollection and EdgeCollection instances for the collections.

Arguments

• excludeSystem: boolean (Default: true)

  Whether system collections should be excluded.

Examples

const db = new Database();

const collections = await db.collections()
// collections is an array of DocumentCollection
// and EdgeCollection instances
// not including system collections

// -- or --

const collections = await db.collections(false)
// collections is an array of DocumentCollection
// and EdgeCollection instances
// including system collections