Manipulating the collection

ArangoOperations.collection

ArangoOperations.collection(Class<?> entityClass) : CollectionOperations

ArangoOperations.collection(String name) : CollectionOperations

Returns the operations interface for a collection. If the collection does not exists, it is created automatically.

Arguments

• entityClass: Class<?>

  The entity type representing the collection

• name: String

  The name of the collection

Examples

@Autowired ArangoOperations template;

CollectionOperations collection = template.collection(MyObject.class);

// -- or --

CollectionOperations collection = template.collection("some-collection-name");

CollectionOperations.truncate

CollectionOperations.truncate() : void

Removes all documents from the collection, but leaves the indexes intact

Examples

@Autowired ArangoOperations template;

CollectionOperations collection = template.collection(MyObject.class);
collection.truncate();

CollectionOperations.drop

CollectionOperations.drop() : void

Deletes the collection from the database.

Examples

@Autowired ArangoOperations template;

CollectionOperations collection = template.collection(MyObject.class);
collection.drop();

CollectionOperations.count

CollectionOperation.count() : long

Counts the documents in a collection

Examples

@Autowired ArangoOperations template;

CollectionOperations collection = template.collection(MyObject.class);
long count = collection.count();

CollectionOperations.getProperties

CollectionOperations.getProperties() : CollectionPropertiesEntity

Reads the properties of the specified collection

Examples

@Autowired ArangoOperations template;

CollectionOperations collection = template.collection(MyObject.class);
CollectionPropertiesEntity properties = collection.getProperties();

CollectionOperation.getIndexes

CollectionOperations.getIndexes() : Collection<IndexEntity>

Returns all indexes of the collection

Examples

@Autowired ArangoOperations template;

CollectionOperations collection = template.collection(MyObject.class);
Collection<IndexEntity> indexes = collection.getIndexes();

CollectionOperations.ensureHashIndex

CollectionOperations.ensureHashIndex(Iterable<String> fields, HashIndexOptions options) : IndexEntity

Creates a hash index for the collection if it does not already exist.

Arguments

• fields: Iterable<String>

  A list of attribute paths

• options: HashIndexOptions

  • unique: Boolean

    If true, then create a unique index

  • sparse: Boolean

    If true, then create a sparse index

  • deduplicate: Boolean

    If false, the deduplication of array values is turned off.

Examples

@Autowired ArangoOperations template;

CollectionOperations collection = template.collection(MyObject.class);
IndexEntity index = collection.ensureHashIndex(Arrays.asList("a", "b.c"), new HashIndexOptions());
// the index has been created with the handle `index.getId()`

CollectionOperations.ensureSkiplistIndex

CollectionOperations.ensureSkiplistIndex(Iterable<String> fields, SkiplistIndexOptions options) : IndexEntity

Creates a skip-list index for the collection if it does not already exist.

Arguments

• fields: Iterable<String>

  A list of attribute paths

• options: SkiplistIndexOptions

  • unique: Boolean

    If true, then create a unique index

  • sparse: Boolean

    If true, then create a sparse index

  • deduplicate: Boolean

    If false, the deduplication of array values is turned off.

Examples

@Autowired ArangoOperations template;

CollectionOperations collection = template.collection(MyObject.class);
IndexEntity index = collection.ensureSkiplistIndex(Arrays.asList("a", "b.c"), new SkiplistIndexOptions());
// the index has been created with the handle `index.getId()`

CollectionOperations.ensureGeoIndex

CollectionOperations.ensureGeoIndex(Iterable<String> fields, GeoIndexOptions options) : IndexEntity

Creates a geo index for the collection if it does not already exist.

Arguments

• fields: Iterable<String>

  A list of attribute paths

• options: GeoIndexOptions

  • geoJson: Boolean

    If a geo-spatial index on a location is constructed and geoJson is true, then the order within the array is longitude followed by latitude. This corresponds to the format described in.

Examples

@Autowired ArangoOperations template;

CollectionOperations collection = template.collection(MyObject.class);
IndexEntity index = collection.ensureGeoIndex(Arrays.asList("latitude", "longitude"), new GeoIndexOptions());
// the index has been created with the handle `index.getId()`

CollectionOperations.ensureFulltextIndex

CollectionOperations.ensureFulltextIndex(Iterable<String> fields, FulltextIndexOptions options) : IndexEntity

Creates a fulltext index for the collection if it does not already exist.

Arguments

• fields: Iterable<String>

  A list of attribute paths

• options: FulltextIndexOptions

  • minLength: Integer

    Minimum character length of words to index. Will default to a server-defined value if unspecified. It is thus recommended to set this value explicitly when creating the index.

Examples

@Autowired ArangoOperations template;

CollectionOperations collection = template.collection(MyObject.class);
IndexEntity index = collection.ensureFulltextIndex(Arrays.asList("description"), new FulltextIndexOptions());
// the index has been created with the handle `index.getId()`

CollectionOperations.ensurePersistentIndex

CollectionOperations.ensurePersistentIndex(Iterable<String> fields, PersistentIndexOptions options) : IndexEntity

Creates a persistent index for the collection if it does not already exist.

Arguments

• fields: Iterable<String>

  A list of attribute paths

• options: PersistentIndexOptions

  • unique: Boolean

    If true, then create a unique index

  • sparse: Boolean

    If true, then create a sparse index

Examples

@Autowired ArangoOperations template;

CollectionOperations collection = template.collection(MyObject.class);
IndexEntity index = collection.ensurePersistentIndex(Arrays.asList("a", "b.c"), new PersistentIndexOptions());
// the index has been created with the handle `index.getId()`

CollectionOperations.dropIndex

CollectionOperations.dropIndex(String id) : void

Deletes the index with the given id from the collection.

Arguments

• id: String

  The index-handle

Examples

@Autowired ArangoOperations template;

CollectionOperations collection = template.collection(MyObject.class);
collection.dropIndex("some-index");