[QUESTION] What is the idiomatic way to create an empty collection?

[nightroman]

What is the idiomatic way to create an empty collection?

Maybe I missed some existing API but the only way I know is to add and remove a dummy document. Is there a better way to create an empty collection?

Use cases? They are rare of course but I am sure there are more than one.

I have a scenario in FarLite, the LiteDB browser in Far Manager:

• User creates an empty collection for whatever reason and it is shown in the UI.
• User may exit the session. In the next session the new collection should exist.
• Then User opens the collection and adds new documents either using the editor with JSON (done) or copies existing documents from other collections (planned) (UPDATE: also done).

[mbdavid]

Hi @nightroman, today there is no fancy way to do that, there is no CreateCollection method or some similar to that.

I will mark your question as suggestion, so I will discuss this with all team.

[Yanitrix]

@mbdavid Would adding a dummy document to a collection and then deleting it ensure that this collection exists and is empty?