Create #

Creates a new collection in the provided index. You can also provide an optional data mapping that allow you to exploit the full capabilities of our persistent data storage layer, ElasticSearch (check here the mapping capabilities of ElasticSearch).

This method will only update the mapping if the collection already exists.

Arguments #

Create(index string, collection string, mapping json.RawMessage, options types.QueryOptions) error

string

string

json.RawMessage

QueryOptions

mapping #

An string containing the JSON representation of the collection data mapping.

The mapping must have a root field properties that contain the mapping definition:

{
  "properties": {
    "field1": { "type": "text" },
    "field2": {
      "properties": {
        "nestedField": { "type": "keyword" }
      }
    }
  }
}

More informations about database mappings here.

options #

Additional query options

bool

Return #

Return an error or nil if collection successfully created.

Usage #

mapping := json.RawMessage(`{"properties":{"license": {"type": "text"}}}`)
err := kuzzle.Collection.Create("nyc-open-data", "yellow-taxi", mapping, nil)
if err != nil {
  log.Fatal(err)
} else {
  fmt.Println("Success")
}