create

Syntax

    cat JSON_DOCNAME | dataset create COLLECTION_NAME KEY
    dataset create COLLECTION_NAME KEY JSON_VALUE
    dataset create -i JSON_DOCNAME COLLECTION_NAME KEY

Description

create adds a JSON document to a collection. The JSON document can be read from a standard in, a named file (with a “.json” file extension) or expressed literally on the command line.

Usage

In the following four examples jane-doe.json is a file on the local file system contains JSON data containing the JSON_VALUE of {"name":"Jane Doe"}. The KEY we will create is r1. Collection is “people.ds”. The following are equivalent in resulting record.

    cat jane-doe.json | dataset create people.ds r1
    dataset create -i jane-doe.json people.ds r1
    dataset create people.ds r1 '{"name":"Jane Doe"}'