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!CHAPTER Edges, Identifiers, Handles
This is an introduction to ArangoDB's interface for edges and how to handle
edges from the JavaScript shell *arangosh*. For other languages see the
corresponding language API.
Edges in ArangoDB are special documents. In addition to the internal
attributes *_key*, *_id* and *_rev*, they have two attributes *_from* and *_to*,
which contain [document handles](../Glossary/index.html#document_handle), namely the start-point and the end-point of the edge.
The values of *_from* and *_to* are immutable once saved.
[Edge collections](../Glossary/index.html#edge_collection) are special collections that store edge documents. Edge documents
are connection documents that reference other documents. The type of a collection
must be specified when a collection is created and cannot be changed afterwards.
To change edge endpoints you would need to remove old document/edge and insert new one.
Other fields can be updated as in default collection.
!SECTION Working with Edges
!SUBSECTION Insert
<!-- arangod/V8Server/v8-collection.cpp -->
@startDocuBlock InsertEdgeCol
!SUBSECTION Edges
<!-- arangod/V8Server/v8-query.cpp -->
@startDocuBlock edgeCollectionEdges
!SUBSECTION InEdges
<!-- arangod/V8Server/v8-query.cpp -->
@startDocuBlock edgeCollectionInEdges
!SUBSECTION OutEdges
<!-- arangod/V8Server/v8-query.cpp -->
@startDocuBlock edgeCollectionOutEdges