Manipulating vertices

graph.vertexCollection

graph.vertexCollection(collectionName): GraphVertexCollection

Returns a new GraphVertexCollection instance with the given name for this graph.

Arguments

• collectionName: string

  Name of the vertex collection.

Examples

const db = new Database();
const graph = db.graph("some-graph");
const collection = graph.vertexCollection("vertices");
assert.equal(collection.name, "vertices");
// collection is a GraphVertexCollection

graph.listVertexCollections

async graph.listVertexCollections([excludeOrphans]): Array<Object>

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

Arguments

• excludeOrphans: boolean (Default: false)

  Whether orphan collections should be excluded.

Examples

const graph = db.graph('some-graph');

const collections = await graph.listVertexCollections();
// collections is an array of collection descriptions
// including orphan collections

// -- or --

const collections = await graph.listVertexCollections(true);
// collections is an array of collection descriptions
// not including orphan collections

graph.vertexCollections

async graph.vertexCollections([excludeOrphans]): Array<Collection>

Fetches all vertex collections from the database and returns an array of GraphVertexCollection instances for the collections.

Arguments

• excludeOrphans: boolean (Default: false)

  Whether orphan collections should be excluded.

Examples

const graph = db.graph('some-graph');

const collections = await graph.vertexCollections()
// collections is an array of GraphVertexCollection
// instances including orphan collections

// -- or --

const collections = await graph.vertexCollections(true)
// collections is an array of GraphVertexCollection
// instances not including orphan collections

graph.addVertexCollection

async graph.addVertexCollection(collectionName): Object

Adds the collection with the given collectionName to the graph’s vertex collections.

Arguments

• collectionName: string

  Name of the vertex collection to add to the graph.

Examples

const db = new Database();
const graph = db.graph('some-graph');
await graph.addVertexCollection('vertices');
// the collection "vertices" has been added to the graph

graph.removeVertexCollection

async graph.removeVertexCollection(collectionName, [dropCollection]): Object

Removes the vertex collection with the given collectionName from the graph.

Arguments

• collectionName: string

  Name of the vertex collection to remove from the graph.

• dropCollection: boolean (optional)

  If set to true, the collection will also be deleted from the database.

Examples

const db = new Database();
const graph = db.graph('some-graph');
await graph.removeVertexCollection('vertices')
// collection "vertices" has been removed from the graph

// -- or --

await graph.removeVertexCollection('vertices', true)
// collection "vertices" has been removed from the graph
// the collection has also been dropped from the database
// this may have been a bad idea