The Arango Shell

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• The Arango Shell

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Arango Shell Output

In general the Arango Shells prints its as output to standard output channel using the JSON stringifier.

 arangosh> db.five.all().toArray();
 [{ _id : "2223655/3665447", _rev : 3665447, name : "one" }, 
 { _id : "2223655/3730983", _rev : 3730983, name : "two" }, 
 { _id : "2223655/3862055", _rev : 3862055, name : "four" }, 
 { _id : "2223655/3993127", _rev : 3993127, name : "three" }]

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start_pretty_print()

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While the standard JSON stringifier is very concise it is hard to read. Calling the function start_pretty_print will enable the pretty printer which formats the output in a human readable way.

 arangosh> start_pretty_print();
 using pretty printing
 arangosh> db.five.all().toArray();
 [
   { 
     _id : "2223655/3665447", 
     _rev : 3665447, 
     name : "one"
    }, 
   { 
     _id : "2223655/3730983", 
     _rev : 3730983, 
     name : "two"
    }, 
   { 
     _id : "2223655/3862055", 
     _rev : 3862055, 
     name : "four"
    }, 
   { 
     _id : "2223655/3993127", 
     _rev : 3993127, 
     name : "three"
    }
 ]

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stop_pretty_print()

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The functions disable the pretty printer, switching back to the standard JSON output format.