Manipulating databases

These functions implement the HTTP API for manipulating databases.

database.createDatabase

async database.createDatabase(databaseName, [users]): Object

Creates a new database with the given databaseName.

Arguments

• databaseName: string

  Name of the database to create.

• users: Array<Object> (optional)

  If specified, the array must contain objects with the following properties:

  • username: string

    The username of the user to create for the database.

  • passwd: string (Default: empty)

    The password of the user.

  • active: boolean (Default: true)

    Whether the user is active.

  • extra: Object (optional)

    An object containing additional user data.

Examples

const db = new Database();
const info = await db.createDatabase("mydb", [{ username: "root" }]);
// the database has been created

database.exists

async database.exists(): boolean

Checks whether the database exists.

Examples

const db = new Database();
const result = await db.exists();
// result indicates whether the database exists

database.get

async database.get(): Object

Fetches the database description for the active database from the server.

Examples

const db = new Database();
const info = await db.get();
// the database exists

database.listDatabases

async database.listDatabases(): Array<string>

Fetches all databases from the server and returns an array of their names.

Examples

const db = new Database();
const names = await db.listDatabases();
// databases is an array of database names

database.listUserDatabases

async database.listUserDatabases(): Array<string>

Fetches all databases accessible to the active user from the server and returns an array of their names.

Examples

const db = new Database();
const names = await db.listUserDatabases();
// databases is an array of database names

database.dropDatabase

async database.dropDatabase(databaseName): Object

Deletes the database with the given databaseName from the server.

const db = new Database();
await db.dropDatabase("mydb");
// database "mydb" no longer exists

database.truncate

async database.truncate([excludeSystem]): Object

Deletes all documents in all collections in the active database.

Arguments

• excludeSystem: boolean (Default: true)

  Whether system collections should be excluded. Note that this option will be ignored because truncating system collections is not supported anymore for some system collections.

Examples

const db = new Database();

await db.truncate();
// all non-system collections in this database are now empty