ArangoDB Shell Output
By default, the ArangoDB shell uses a pretty printer when JSON documents are printed. This ensures documents are printed in a human-readable way:
arangosh> db._create("five")
[ArangoCollection 29279, "five" (type document, status loaded)]
arangosh> for (i = 0; i < 5; i++) db.five.save({value:i})
arangosh> db.five.toArray()
[
{
"_key" : "29282",
"_id" : "five/29282",
"_rev" : "_UOasc2K---",
"value" : 0
},
{
"_key" : "29286",
"_id" : "five/29286",
"_rev" : "_UOasc2K--_",
"value" : 1
},
{
"_key" : "29289",
"_id" : "five/29289",
"_rev" : "_UOasc2O---",
"value" : 2
},
{
"_key" : "29295",
"_id" : "five/29295",
"_rev" : "_UOasc2O--A",
"value" : 4
},
{
"_key" : "29292",
"_id" : "five/29292",
"_rev" : "_UOasc2O--_",
"value" : 3
}
]
arangosh> db._create("five")
arangosh> for (i = 0; i < 5; i++) db.five.save({value:i})
arangosh> db.five.toArray()
While the pretty-printer produces nice looking results, it will need a lot of screen space for each document. Sometimes, a more dense output might be better. In this case, the pretty printer can be turned off using the command stop_pretty_print().
To turn on pretty printing again, use the start_pretty_print() command.