From 83684d8c2144df295a6c281178803ad8a70f1937 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Hackstein <michael@arangodb.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 13:45:32 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Edge Collections can now be created by giving the string edge
 as type

---
 js/actions/system/api-collection.js | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/js/actions/system/api-collection.js b/js/actions/system/api-collection.js
index 6382bb43c7..e7029970a0 100644
--- a/js/actions/system/api-collection.js
+++ b/js/actions/system/api-collection.js
@@ -205,7 +205,11 @@ function post_api_collection (req, res) {
 
   try {
     var collection;
-
+    if (typeof(type) === "string") {
+      if (type.toLowerCase() === "edge") {
+        type = arangodb.ArangoCollection.TYPE_EDGE;
+      }
+    }
     if (type === arangodb.ArangoCollection.TYPE_EDGE) {
       collection = arangodb.db._createEdgeCollection(name, parameter);
     }