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 39393, "five" (type document, status loaded)]
arangosh> for (i = 0; i < 5; i++) db.five.save({value:i})
arangosh> db.five.toArray()
[
{
"_key" : "39403",
"_id" : "five/39403",
"_rev" : "_VaheQja--A",
"value" : 2
},
{
"_key" : "39409",
"_id" : "five/39409",
"_rev" : "_VaheQje---",
"value" : 4
},
{
"_key" : "39400",
"_id" : "five/39400",
"_rev" : "_VaheQja--_",
"value" : 1
},
{
"_key" : "39396",
"_id" : "five/39396",
"_rev" : "_VaheQja---",
"value" : 0
},
{
"_key" : "39406",
"_id" : "five/39406",
"_rev" : "_VaheQja--B",
"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.