`Documents`

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Documents( collection )

Description

The Documents function returns the set of documents that exist in the specified collection.

Parameters

Parameter Type Definition and Requirements

Parameter	Type	Definition and Requirements
`collection`	Reference	A Reference to the collection from which documents should be collected.

collection

Reference

A Reference to the collection from which documents should be collected.

Returns

A Set Reference which represents all of the documents in the specified collection.

Examples

The following query returns three documents in the Letters collection:

Paginate(Documents(Collection('Letters')), { size: 3 })

{
  after: [ Ref(Collection("Letters"), "104") ],
  data: [
    Ref(Collection("Letters"), "101"),
    Ref(Collection("Letters"), "102"),
    Ref(Collection("Letters"), "103")
  ]
}

Query metrics:

bytesIn: 60
bytesOut: 449
computeOps: 1
readOps: 8
writeOps: 0
readBytes: 1,216
writeBytes: 0
queryTime: 12ms
retries: 0