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Reserved words

Reserved FQL keywords and type names

The following FQL keywords and types names are reserved and may not be used as a variable, parameter, or top-level entity name.

Keywords:

at

false

if

let

null

true

Types:

Array

Boolean

Bytes

Date

Double

Function

Long

Null

Number

Object

String

Timestamp

Tuple

Union

Uuid

Reserved schema names

The following schema entity, method, and metadata names may not be used as top-level, user-defined entity names.

The acronym FQL, itself, is reserved. This means FQL.Collection can be called to get the Collection module if needed.

Schema entities:

AccessProvider

Collection

Credential

Database

Doc

Function

Index

Key

Query

Role

Token

View

Schema methods:

delete

replace

update

updateData

replaceData

Schema metadata fields:

coll

id

ts

ttl

Schema data field:

data

Reserved index names

The following names can’t be used as Collection names:

documents

events

self

sets

See also

Aliasing

Document field name collision

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