How to programmatically create an OrientDB database of a given (json) schema?

Question

For my dev workflow purposes, I'd like to create a new orientdb database given a JSON schema, on the fly. I dont believe this is natively supported in orientdb, are there any existing solutions that do this - provide a JSON schema and point to a orientdb instance, and it auto-creates the database (edges, vertices, indexes and perhaps some sample data).

Answer 1

I ended up creating a .sh script to create the DB on the fly. The .sh files looks something like:

# (file: createmydb.sh)

# script to create my database declaratively

set echo true

# use this to ignore errors and continue, if needed
# set ignoreErrors true

# create database
create database plocal:../databases/MyDB root root plocal graph

# create User vertex
create class User extends      V

create property User.Email                  STRING
create property User.Firstname              STRING
...

And then call it like:

/usr/local/src/orientdb/bin/console.sh createmydb.sh

This works well for my purposes. The DB creation script is very easy to read, can be modified easily. And I am sure very backwards compatible (which may not have been the case with importing an exported JSON version of the db schema).