While saving a collection MongoDB is creating Index name which is too long and exceeds 127 bytes limit. How to solve this. can i disable indexing?

Question

com.mongodb.CommandFailureException: { \"serverUsed\" : \"localhost:27017\" , \"createdCollectionAutomatically\" : true , \"numIndexesBefore\" : 1 , \"ok\" : 0.0 , \"err         


        

Answer 1

You can not disable indexing as MongoDB will always create an index for _id. Shorten your collection name instead - saves you some typing too

Answer 2

You can pass an index name as parameter to ensureIndex:

db.collection.ensureIndex({"birds.parrots.macaw.blue.id": 1}, {name:"myIndex1"});

db.collection.ensureIndex({"birds.parrots.macaw.blue.id": 1, "field2": 1}, {name:"myIndex1"});