Query Dgraph types

You can retrieve the Dgraph schema containing the list of predicates types and node types by:

• issuing a query on /query endpoint using the HTTP Client
• issuing a query using any DQL client library
• using Ratel UI
• using the Cloud console through the DQL Schema tab of the Schema section.

When using a query, the request body is

schema {}

Unlike regular queries, the schema query is not surrounded

by curly braces. Also, schema queries and regular queries cannot be combined.

You can query for particular schema fields in the query body.

schema {
  type
  index
  reverse
  tokenizer
  list
  count
  upsert
  lang
}

You can also query for particular predicates:

schema(pred: [name, friend]) {
  type
  index
  reverse
  tokenizer
  list
  count
  upsert
  lang
}

If ACL is enabled, then the schema query returns only the

predicates for which the logged-in ACL user has read access. :::

Types can also be queried. Below are some example queries.

schema(type: Movie) {}
schema(type: [Person, Animal]) {}

Note that type queries do not contain anything between the curly braces. The output will be the entire definition of the requested types.