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Expand Up @@ -166,8 +166,7 @@ The ``files`` Collection
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Each document in the ``files`` collection represents a file in
:term:`GridFS`. Consider a document in the ``files`` collection, which
has the following form:
:term:`GridFS`.

.. code-block:: javascript

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"filename" : <string>,
"contentType" : <string>,
"aliases" : <string array>,
"metadata" : <dataObject>,
"metadata" : <any>,
}

Documents in the ``files`` collection contain some or all of the
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.. data:: files.metadata

Optional. Any additional information you want to store.

Applications may create additional arbitrary fields.
Optional. The metadata field may be of any data type and can hold
any additional information you want to store. If you wish to add
additional arbitrary fields to documents in the ``files``
collection, add them to an object in the metadata field.

.. index:: GridFS; index; indexes
.. _gridfs-indexes:
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