How to create mongodb 2dsphere index on strapi? - mongodb

Question

My strapi project use Mongo database.
Strapi version : 3.0.0-beta.19.5
I have tried :
creating the 2dsphere index manually with the command in the mongo console, but when the application start to run, the index got deleted. I think maybe the database kinda synchronize with the strapi model configuration.
I checked the strapi document and I see there is an option to create an index by adding a configuration to the model.settings.json, but there is only a single field index option.
Is there any way to create a 2dspere index?

Answer 1

I just found a solution. I had to look up on the mongoose documentation index part.
In strapi documentation, they only tell that the value of 'index' is a boolean type. Which is different from mongoose doc. Actually the model.settings.json structure follow mongoose documentation.
So, to create the 2dsphere index we just need to specify "2dsphere" in the key "index" on that field.
Eg.
{
"kind": "collectionType",
"connection": "default",
"collectionName": "phone_stores",
"info": {
"name": "phoneStore"
},
"options": {
"increments": true,
"timestamps": true
},
"attributes": {
"car": {
"type": "integer",
"required": true
},
"userStoreId": {
"type": "objectId"
},
"location": {
"type": "json",
"index": "2dsphere" // <------ <1>
},
}
}
<1> if true were specify, Single field index will be created on this field. But u can also specify other type of index, like in my case i use '2dsphere'.
UPDATE
What I said about
u can also specify other type of index
is not correct. The index type is limited because of the framework. So far I have test with 2dsphere, which is working. I test also text index, but it didn't work.