Possibility to use additional AQL functions

[alexandropov]

I wanted to find a document from part of a string which is mostly used in search engines and used by AQL functions, CONTAINS, LIKE()

how can this be implemented here?

[joowani]

Hi alexandropov,

Are you talking about user-defined AQL functions?
If so, you can check out the python-arango documentation page for managing them here.
Once you've defined the functions you should be able to call the functions in your AQL statements like this.

Let me know if you have other questions.

Thanks,
Joohwan

[alexandropov]

thanks, is there a way to blend aql queries with existing predefine functions?

i.e how do i proceed on inserting

lola = {'_key': 'lola', 'GPA': 3.5, 'first': 'Lola', 'last': 'Martin', 'date','now()'}where now is arangodb conformed date or other related functions?

[joowani]

Hi Alexandropov,

For your particular example you can do something like this:

db.aql.execute("INSERT { _key: 'lola', time: DATE_NOW() } IN students")

For more details on AQL and AQL syntax please refer to ArangoDB's documentation.

Thanks,
Joohwan