create-table

Use create-table to create a table identified by the specified table name.

Basic syntax

To create a table identified by the specified table name, use the following syntax:

(create-table table)

Prerequisites

Before using this function in a Pact module, you must define the table fields using the defschema declaration and the table identifier using the deftable declaration. Creating the table is a separate step that is outside of the Pact module where the schema and identifier are defined.

Arguments

Use the following argument to specify the table name you want to create using the create-table Pact function.

Argument	Type	Description
table	table: <{row}>	Specifies the table to create.

Return value

The create-table function returns a string representing the identifier of the created table.

Example

The following example demonstrates how to use the create-table function to create a table identified by accounts that can be used for storing account information:

(create-table accounts)

The following example illustrates using the create-table function after defining the table schema and table identifier:

(defschema wallet-schema
	name : string
)
(deftable wallet-table:{wallet-schema})

...

(create-table wallet-table)