Graphs
This chapter describes the general-graph module. It allows you to define a graph that is spread across several edge and document collections. This allows you to structure your models in line with your domain and group them logically in collections giving you the power to query them in the same graph queries. There is no need to include the referenced collections within the query, this module will handle it for you.
Three Steps to create a graph
- Create a graph
arangosh> var graph_module = require("@arangodb/general-graph");
arangosh> var graph = graph_module._create("myGraph");
arangosh> graph;
{[Graph]
}
- Add some vertex collections
arangosh> graph._addVertexCollection("shop");
arangosh> graph._addVertexCollection("customer");
arangosh> graph._addVertexCollection("pet");
arangosh> graph;
{[Graph]
"shop" : [ArangoCollection 16559, "shop" (type document, status loaded)],
"customer" : [ArangoCollection 16565, "customer" (type document, status loaded)],
"pet" : [ArangoCollection 16571, "pet" (type document, status loaded)]
}
arangosh> graph._addVertexCollection("shop");
arangosh> graph._addVertexCollection("customer");
arangosh> graph._addVertexCollection("pet");
arangosh> graph;
- Define relations on the Graph
arangosh> var rel = graph_module._relation("isCustomer", ["shop"], ["customer"]);
arangosh> graph._extendEdgeDefinitions(rel);
arangosh> graph;
{[Graph]
"isCustomer" : [ArangoCollection 16612, "isCustomer" (type edge, status loaded)],
"shop" : [ArangoCollection 16604, "shop" (type document, status loaded)],
"customer" : [ArangoCollection 16608, "customer" (type document, status loaded)],
"pet" : [ArangoCollection 16597, "pet" (type document, status loaded)]
}
arangosh> var rel = graph_module._relation("isCustomer", ["shop"], ["customer"]);
arangosh> graph._extendEdgeDefinitions(rel);
arangosh> graph;