How can I list all user-created attributes?

Question

I tried to find all user-created attributes with the code below and it returns many other default attributes, like db/unique and fressian/tag.

I'd like to get a set without them, so I was wondering if there is a better way to get it than filtering out the attributes by their prefixes.

Thanks

(q {:find '[?ident]
    :where '[[:db.part/db :db.install/attribute ?p]
             [?p :db/ident ?ident]]} db)

or

(filter (partial instance? datomic.db.Attribute)
      (:elements (p/db)))

Answer 1

One way to do it is to white/black list the namespaces you want to filter out or include. Note there's no difference between some of Datomic's built-in attributes and user attributes. You can freely create attributes in any of the system namespaces e.g. db.type but of course you're not supposed to do it.

Having said that, there's only a few namespaces used for system attributes so you could simply filter out those known namespaces. e.g.

(def system-ns #{"db" "db.type" "db.install" "db.part" 
                 "db.lang" "fressian" "db.unique" "db.excise" 
                 "db.cardinality" "db.fn"})

(d/q '[:find ?e ?ident
   :in $ ?system-ns
   :where
   [?e :db/ident ?ident]
   [(namespace ?ident) ?ns]
   [((comp not contains?) ?system-ns ?ns)]]
 (d/db conn) system-ns)