Clarified Question: how to set a type with SetNquads

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Hi there, I was wondering how I can create a new node with a specific Type with SetNquads ie:

type Document {
  title string
  content string
  created datetime
  modified datetime
}

Here’s an example struct:

node := Document {
  title: "hello",
  content: "foobar",
  created: time.Time(),
  modified: time.Time()
}

How can I create a new Document record with an N-quad then assert all the individual properties to it? I want to pass them into SetNQuad in my mutation.

Thanks.

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Hey @ddibiase, welcome back!

The type information in Dgraph is stored under dgraph.type edge which has underlying type of [string]. See https://docs.dgraph.io/query-language/#setting-the-type-of-a-node. In SetNquads, this would just be another edge with a string value which is the type of the node.

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Thanks Pawan. We’re re-evaluating dgraph for a new project. You’ll hear from me quite a bit I’d imagine :-p a lot has changed since we last used Dgraph, great to see the progress! :slight_smile:

Let me give this a try and get back to you.