Indexes ======= Working with indexes in the MongoDB ODM is pretty straight forward. You can have multiple indexes, they can consist of multiple fields, they can be unique and you can give them an order. In this chapter we'll show you examples of indexes using annotations. First here is an example where we put an index on a single property: .. configuration-block:: .. code-block:: php .. code-block:: yaml fields: username: index: true Index Options ------------- You can customize the index with some additional options: - **name** - The name of the index. This can be useful if you are indexing many keys and Mongo complains about the index name being too long. - **dropDups** - If a unique index is being created and duplicate values exist, drop all but one duplicate value. - **background** - Create indexes in the background while other operations are taking place. By default, index creation happens synchronously. If you specify TRUE with this option, index creation will be asynchronous. - **safe** - You can specify a boolean value for checking if the index creation succeeded. The driver will throw a MongoCursorException if index creation failed. - **expireAfterSeconds** - If you specify this option then the associated document will be automatically removed when the provided time (in seconds) has passed. This option is bound to a number of limitations, which are documented at https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/tutorial/expire-data/. - **order** - The order of the index (asc or desc). - **unique** - Create a unique index. - **sparse** - Create a sparse index. If a unique index is being created the sparse option will allow duplicate null entries, but the field must be unique otherwise. - **partialFilterExpression** - Create a partial index. Partial indexes only index the documents in a collection that meet a specified filter expression. By indexing a subset of the documents in a collection, partial indexes have lower storage requirements and reduced performance costs for index creation and maintenance. This feature was introduced with MongoDB 3.2 and is not available on older versions. Unique Index ------------ .. configuration-block:: .. code-block:: php .. code-block:: yaml fields: username: index: true unique: true order: true For your convenience you can quickly specify a unique index with ``@UniqueIndex``: .. configuration-block:: .. code-block:: php .. code-block:: yaml fields: username: unique: true order: true If you want to specify an index that consists of multiple fields you can specify them on the class doc block: .. configuration-block:: .. code-block:: php .. code-block:: yaml Documents\User: indexes: usernameacctid: options: unique: true keys: accountId: order: asc username: order: asc To specify multiple indexes you must use the ``@Indexes`` annotation: .. configuration-block:: .. code-block:: php .. code-block:: yaml Documents\User: indexes: accountId: keys: accountId: order: asc username: keys: username: order: asc Embedded Indexes ---------------- You can specify indexes on embedded documents just like you do on normal documents. When Doctrine creates the indexes for a document it will also create all the indexes from its mapped embedded documents. .. code-block:: php ensureIndexes(); It will create the indexes from the ``BlogPost`` document but will also create the indexes that are defined on the ``Comment`` embedded document. The following would be executed on the underlying MongoDB database: .. db.BlogPost.ensureIndexes({ 'slug' : 1, 'comments.date': 1 }) Also, for your convenience you can create the indexes for your mapped documents from the :doc:`console `: .. $ php mongodb.php mongodb:schema:create --index .. note:: If you are :ref:`mixing document types ` for your embedded documents, ODM will not be able to create indexes for their fields unless you specify a discriminator map for the :ref:`embed-one ` or :ref:`embed-many ` relationship. Geospatial Indexing ------------------- You can specify a geospatial index by just specifying the keys and options structures manually: .. configuration-block:: .. code-block:: php .. code-block:: yaml indexes: coordinates: keys: coordinates: 2d Partial indexes --------------- You can create a partial index by adding a ``partialFilterExpression`` to any index. .. configuration-block:: .. code-block:: php .. code-block:: yaml indexes: partialIndexExample: keys: coordinates: asc options: partialFilterExpression: version: { $gt: 1 } .. note:: Partial indexes are only available with MongoDB 3.2 or newer. For more information on partial filter expressions, read the `official MongoDB documentation `_. Requiring Indexes ----------------- .. note:: Requiring Indexes was deprecated in 1.2 and will be removed in 2.0. Sometimes you may want to require indexes for all your queries to ensure you don't let stray unindexed queries make it to the database and cause performance problems. .. configuration-block:: .. code-block:: php .. code-block:: yaml # Documents.Place.dcm.yml Documents\Place: fields: id: id: true city: type: string indexes: index1: keys: city: asc When you run queries it will check that it is indexed and throw an exception if it is not indexed: .. code-block:: php createQueryBuilder('Documents\Place') ->field('city')->equals('Nashville'); $query = $qb->getQuery(); $places = $query->execute(); When you execute the query it will throw an exception if `city` was not indexed in the database. You can control whether or not an exception will be thrown by using the `requireIndexes()` method: .. code-block:: php requireIndexes(false); You can also check if the query is indexed and with the `isIndexed()` method and use it to display your own notification when a query is unindexed: .. code-block:: php getQuery(); if (!$query->isIndexed()) { $notifier->addError('Cannot execute queries that are not indexed.'); } If you don't want to require indexes for all queries you can set leave `requireIndexes` as false and control it on a per query basis: .. code-block:: php requireIndexes(true); $query = $qb->getQuery(); $results = $query->execute();