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Arangodb is a multi-modal database.

The maintainers of arangodb provide a java driver for communicating with an arangodb server. This library provides clojure developers a thin (and incomplete) wrapper of that interface. Much like monger, the java implementation is still visible.

functions are lispy versions of their java counterparts. options are passed as map - with keywords written in :cammelCase - for example {:someOption "a string" :anotherOption ["192.168.1.1", 8888]} For more information about what constitutes a valid option for a method you must consult the java api documentation. As an aside, I considered adding destructuring to give the user nice feedback - but there are just to many of them! If you are interested - have a look at the options namespace and the functions fn-builder and build - we just take the map and create method calls from the keys.

This wrapper exposes most of the available methods - If we look at how the java code is used, in this example a new connecton is being made to a server.

ArangoDB arangoDB = new ArangoDB.Builder().useProtocol(Protocol.VST).host("192.168.182.50", 8888).build();

In the clojure version we are doing exactly the same thing under the hood.

(import 'com.arangodb.Protocol)
(def arango-db (connect {:useProtocol Protocol/VST :host ["192.168.182.50" 8888]}))

One very important namespace

the namespace clj-arangodb.arangodb.adapter contains 3 multimethods

(defmulti serialize-doc class)
(defmulti deserialize-doc class)
(defmulti from-entity class)

On top of that the is 1 dynamic var *default-doc-class* that is bound to the class com.arangodb.velocypack.VPackSlice

To understand the design of this library it is important to undererstand a little bit about how the java client works.

When you want to send data to ArangoDB the data can be in json POJO (plain old Java object) or a format called a VPackSlice VPackSlices are optimised for fast transmition (by default the java driver uses something called velocy-streams which as you might have guessed have a lot to do with VPackSlices or velocy packs.

As clojurists we like to work with maps and it gets really annoying having to wrap all of your calls in some "to-string" - However, as there are multiple options in how data can be sent, I have tried to be as un-opinionated as possible. I also didn't want to have any dependencies (so no external json libs - pjson is fast but its up to you).

lets see what happens

(ns user
  (:require [clj-arangodb.arangodb.core :as ar]
            [clj-arangodb.arangodb.databases :as d]
            [clj-arangodb.arangodb.collections :as c]))

(def conn (ar/connect {:user "test"}))
(def db (ar/create-and-get-database conn "myDB"))
(def coll (d/create-and-get-collection db "myColl"))

By default calls that return a Entity of some kind are wrapped with adapter/from-entity. Entity results are only data - ie they are not handles. The default for this is to call bean and then examines the values under the keys - this approach has been trail and error, but the default aim to give the user readable and usable results - in general if the entity contains results, these results are not desearialzed. all sub classes are - (some are converted to string to give sensible data)

As far as I can tell there is no Abstract Entity class to dispatch on... which is a bit awkward

(defmethod from-entity :default [obj]
  (cond (is-entity? obj)
        (try (.getDeclaringClass obj)
             ;; some entites only make sense as string
             ;; very much a heuristic here
             (str obj)
             (catch java.lang.IllegalArgumentException _
               (persistent!
                (reduce (fn [m [k v]]
                          (assoc! m k (from-entity v)))
                        (transient {}) (bean obj)))))
        ;; an array 'inside' an entity
        ;; we only map if we know the first item is an entity
        ;; this is because a MultiDocumententity may contain
        ;; return values or Entities depending on the call.
        (= java.util.ArrayList (-> obj class))
        (cond (empty? obj) []
              (is-entity? (.get obj 0)) (vec (map from-entity obj))
              :else (vec obj))
        :else obj))

Lets add a document

user> (c/insert-document coll {:name "nested" :data {:a {:b [1 2 3] :c true}}})
{:class com.arangodb.entity.DocumentCreateEntity, :id "helloColl/360443", :key "360443", :new nil, :old nil, :rev "_XKHy-X---_"}

Now, it's time to get the data back again.

user> (c/get-document coll "360443")
{:_id "helloColl/360443", :_key "360443", :_rev "_XKHy-X---_", :data {:a {:b [1 2 3], :c true}}, :name "nested"}

By default maps are packed and unpacked as VPackSlice objects - the implementation of this is the velocypack namespace.

if we pass a class as well we can get a different type back

user> (c/get-document c "360443" String)
"{\"_id\":\"helloColl\\/360443\",\"_key\":\"360443\",\"_rev\":\"_XKHy-X---_\",\"data\":{\"a\":{\"b\":[1,2,3],\"c\":true}},\"name\":\"nested\"}"
user> (c/get-document c "360443" java.util.Map)
{"data" {"a" {"b" [1 2 3], "c" true}}, "_rev" "_XKHy-X---_", "name" "nested", "_id" "helloColl/360443", "_key" "360443"}
user> (c/get-document c "360443" BaseDocument)
{:class com.arangodb.entity.BaseDocument, :id "helloColl/360443", :key "360443", :properties {"data" {"a" {"b" [1 2 3], "c" true}}, "name" "nested"}, :revision "_XKHy-X---_"}

If you want to use a json serializer/deserializer then just extend the multimethods serialize-doc and deserialize-doc for the class String

Have a play - and remeber the multimethods! - if you don't like the data you are getting, change it...

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