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Create a Rolling Index

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  • Request Path Parameters
  • Request Query Parameters
  • Request Body Parameters
  • Response
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The Atlas Administration API authenticates using HTTP Digest Authentication. Provide a programmatic API public key and corresponding private key as the username and password when constructing the HTTP request. To learn how to configure API access for an Atlas project, see Get Started with the Atlas Administration API.

https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/atlas/v1.0

POST /groups/{GROUP-ID}/clusters/{CLUSTER-NAME}/index

You must have one of the following roles to successfully call this resource:

Path Element
Required/Optional
Description
GROUP-ID
Required.
Unique identifier of the project which holds the cluster on which to create an index.
CLUSTER-NAME
Required.
The name of the cluster on which to create an index.

This endpoint might use any of the HTTP request query parameters available to all Atlas Administration API resources. All of these are optional.

Name
Type
Necessity
Description
Default
pretty
boolean
Optional
Flag indicating whether the response body should be in a prettyprint format.
false
envelope
boolean
Optional

Flag indicating if Atlas should wrap the response in a JSON envelope.

This option may be needed for some API clients. These clients cannot access the HTTP response headers or status code. To remediate this, set envelope=true in the query.

For endpoints that return one result, the response body includes:

status
HTTP response code
envelope
Expected response body
false
Name
Type
Description
Required
db
string
The name of the database that holds the collection on which to create an index.
Required
collection
string
The name of the collection on which to create an index.
Required
keys
array of objects

An array containing one or more objects in which the key is the field to be indexed and the value is the type of the index. For more information on index creation syntax, see the createIndex() shell method.

Important

If you want to create a multikey index, you must list each field in its own object within the keys object array. JSON does not guarantee item order, so if you list multiple fields in the same object, the index may not build correctly.

Required
options
object
A document that contains a set of options that controls the creation of the index. See Index Options for more information.
Optional
collation
object
A document that contains a set of options to control index collation. See Collation Options for more information.
Optional

This endpoint returns an empty document.

curl -u "{PUBLIC-KEY}:{PRIVATE-KEY}" --digest \
--header "Accept: application/json" \
--header "Content-Type: application/json" \
--request POST "https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/atlas/v1.0/groups/{GROUP-ID}/clusters/{CLUSTER-NAME}/index" \
--data '{
"db": "test",
"collection": "myCollection",
"keys": [{ "myField": 1 }],
"collation": { "locale": "en_US", "strength": 2 }
}'
{}
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