@collection directive

Specifies the name of the Fauna collection to use, instead of an automatically-created collection name based on the GraphQL type.

Schema location

This directive is valid in a Type declaration within a GraphQL schema.

Arguments

Argument Type Required Description

name

String

Yes

The name for the database collection to use for this GraphQL type.

Description

The @collection directive controls the name of the underlying database collection for the annotated type. By default, the GraphQL API uses the name of a type as the name of the collection in the database.

When a collection with the specified name already exists, the GraphQL API uses that collection. If not, the GraphQL API creates the collection using the specified name.

Example

Given the following GraphQL schema:

type User @collection(name: "users") {
  name: String
}

The database collections would be:

Paginate(Collections())
{ data: [ Collection("users") ] }

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