Create a Rolling Index
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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
Syntax
POST /groups/{GROUP-ID}/clusters/{CLUSTER-NAME}/index
Required Roles
You must have one of the following roles to successfully call this resource:
Request Path Parameters
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. |
Request Query Parameters
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:
| false |
Request Body Parameters
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 | 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 |
Response
This endpoint returns an empty document.
Example
Request
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 } }'
Response
{}