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About

This documentation is part of Pod.

In order to store items in the database, Pod needs to be aware of their types in advance. This information is stored in a "schema".

Items

Items are the main thing that is stored in Pod. You could see it as the main holder for Pod's data.

Item's mandatory properties

  • type, case-sensitive item's type. Can never be changed once created.
  • id, the unique identifier of the item, signed 64-bit integer.
  • dateCreated, creation date as seen by the client, stored as DateTime. Set by the client by default, or, if missing, by Pod.
  • dateModified, last modification date as seen by the client. Updated by the client by default, or, if missing, by Pod.
  • deleted, a flag that, if set to true, will mean that the item was deleted by the user. It is still possible to restore the item later on. Permanent delete will be supported in the future, based in deletion date.

Item's additional properties

Additional properties can be set dynamically via the Schema API.

Edges

Edges connect items together to form a directed graph.

Edge's mandatory properties

  • _source, the id of the item it points from
  • _target, the id of the item it points to
  • name, the name of the edge. Cannot be modified once created.
  • all mandatory item's properties

Edge's additional properties

Same as for items, additional properties can be set dynamically via the Schema API.

Understanding the schema

The Schema lists all types that can be stored in Pod, and their properties.

Valid types for properties are, at the moment:

  • Text UTF-8 string.
  • Integer Signed 8-byte integer.
  • Real 8-byte IEEE floating-point number.
  • Bool Boolean. Internally, booleans are stored as Integers 0 and 1. This is never exposed to the clients, however, and clients should only ever receive/send true and false.
  • DateTime The number of non-leap-milliseconds since 00:00 UTC on January 1, 1970. Internally stored as Integer and should be passed as Integer.

All properties of the same case-insensitive name MUST have the same type and indexing. All property names MUST consist of a-zA-Z0-9_ characters only, and start with a-zA-Z. All type names MUST consist of a-zA-Z0-9_ characters only, and start with a-zA-Z (same as column names).

Contributing your schema

TODO: the way of working with Schema has changed and is not fully documented yet. Refer to the HTTP_API to see how you can change the Schema for now.