Create a Collection with Stash CLI

You can create a collection in your workspace using the stash create-collection command. In order to create a collection, you must be logged in.

Synopsis

stash create-collection <name> [--schema=your-schema.json] [--no-schema]

Arguments

The collection name <name> is mandatory. This is the name of the collection that will be created.

Either the --schema or --no-schema argument must be provided when creating a collection.

• If --no-schema is provided, the collection will only be usable as a key-value store
• If --schema is provided, the collection will support searching the fields and indexes specified in the schema

While --no-schema is supported, providing a schema is necessary to be able to use the rich querying capabilities of CipherStash with your collection.

Examples

Create the movies collection in your workspace:

Without a schema

$ stash create-collection movies --no-schema
The 'movies' collection has been created.

With a schema

$ echo <<SCHEMA > ./movies.schema.json
{
  "type": {
    "title": "string",
    "runningTime": "uint64",
    "year": "uint64"
  },
  "indexes": {
    "exactTitle": { "kind": "exact", "field": "title" },
    "runningTime": { "kind": "range", "field": "runningTime" },
    "year": { "kind": "range", "field": "year" },
    "title": {
      "kind": "match",
      "fields": ["title"],
      "tokenFilters": [
        { "kind": "downcase" },
        { "kind": "ngram", "tokenLength": 3 }
      ],
      "tokenizer": { "kind": "standard" }
    }
  }
}
SCHEMA
$ stash create-collection movies --schema=movies.schema.json
The 'movies' collection has been created.

Exit Status

The exit status will be 0 if the collection was successfully created.

An exit status of 1 indicates a failure to create the collection, most likely because the credentials were invalid or the server was unavailable, or there was an error in the provided schema definition.

Whenever a non-zero exit status is returned, a helpful error message is printed to standard error.