CRUD API

Every model depending on the classType exposes a number of methods to perform crud operations on the database. The following methods are available for classType Vertex. A vertex in ArangoDB is just a normal document. It may or not be connected to another vertex through an edge. For more information abbout graphs go to the official documentation

Compatibility

This adapter implements the following methods:

Method	Status	Category
create	Done	DML
createEach	Done	DML
update	Done	DML
upsert	Done	DML
destroy	Done	DML
find	Done	DQL
count	Done	DQL
sum	Done	DQL
avg	Done	DQL
normalize	Done	DQL
define	Done	DDL
drop	Done	DDL

Create

The method used to insert a document into a collection.

Usage

const created = await User.create({
  full_name: "Angela W.",
  email: "angelow@gmail.com",
  password: "xxxxx"
}).meta({
  fetch: true
});

// Do something with created record.

the {meta: true} option is just one of the options available when impletementing the methods in waterline. Its beyond the scope of this documentation. If you want to learn more about this options, please visit the Sails Documentation

In our examples, we shall use the async and await for asynchrounous implementation. Its worth noting that you call as well use call back functions.

The above code is the same as the code below

await User.create({
  full_name: "Angela W.",
  email: "angelow@gmail.com",
  password: "xxxxx"
}).exec(function(error, created) {
  if (error) {
    //handle errorr
  }
  // handle the created record.
});