Table helper name ambiguity

If I have a Table defined like so:

export const TableViews = Table("tableViews", tableViewsFields).table.index(
  "byCollectionId",
  ["collectionId"]
);
const fireviewSchema = defineSchema(
  {
    tableViewd: TableViews,

  },
}

export const TableViews = Table("tableViews", tableViewsFields).table.index(
  "byCollectionId",
  ["collectionId"]
);
const fireviewSchema = defineSchema(
  {
    tableViewd: TableViews,

  },
}

I can see that convex creates a new table called tableViewd in the dashboard, so not sure what the "tableViews" string is being used for? @ian

1 Reply

ian•9mo ago

You can click into the code to see - it affects the _id validator and types returned. So e.g. if you use the TableViews.doc validator it'll both expect a type of Id<'tableViews'> and at runtime it'll check that the _id is an ID in a "tableViews" table. If you don't use ._id, .withSystemFields, .doc, or .systemFields then it doesn't affect anything here you're immediately using .table so it's equivalent to defineTable(tableViewsFields).index...

Table helper name ambiguity

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