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EdgeDB client for Elixir automatically converts EdgeDB types to the corresponding Elixir types and vice versa.

The table below shows the correspondence between EdgeDB and Elixir types.

EdgeDB

Elixir

Example

std::str

String.t/0

"Hello EdgeDB!"

std::int16, std::int32, std::int64

integer/0

16

std::float32, std::float64

float/0

3.1415

std::bigint, std::decimal

Decimal.t/0

#Decimal<1.23>

std::bool

boolean/0

true, false

std::datetime

DateTime.t/0

~U[2018-05-07 15:01:22Z]

std::duration

integer/0 or Timex.Duration

-420000000, #<Duration(PT7M)>

cal::local_datetime

NaiveDateTime.t/0

~N[2018-05-07 15:01:22]

cal::local_date

Date.t/0

~D[2018-05-07]

cal::local_time

Time.t/0

~T[15:01:22]

cal::relative_duration

EdgeDB.RelativeDuration.t/0

#EdgeDB.RelativeDuration<"PT45.6S">

cal::date_duration

EdgeDB.DateDuration.t/0

#EdgeDB.DateDuration<"P4Y12D">

std::json

any/0

42

std::uuid

String.t/0

"0eba1636-846e-11ec-845e-276b0105b857"

std::bytes

binary/0

<<1, 2, 3>>, "some bytes"

cfg::memory

EdgeDB.ConfigMemory.t/0

#EdgeDB.ConfigMemory<"5KiB">

ext::pgvector::vector

list/0

[1.5, 2.0, 4.5]

anyenum

String.t/0

"green"

array<anytype>

list/0

[1, 2, 3]

anytuple

tuple/0 or EdgeDB.NamedTuple.t/0

{1, 2, 3}, #EdgeDB.NamedTuple<a: 1, b: 2, c: 3>}

range

EdgeDB.Range.t/0

#EdgeDB.Range<[1.1, 3.3)>

object

EdgeDB.Object.t/0

#EdgeDB.Object<name := "username">}

set

EdgeDB.Set.t/0

#EdgeDB.Set<{1, 2, 3}>}

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