Reopen: Configuration to disable inclusion of embedded document schema index definitions #5575

[armaserg]

This topic was discussed here: #5575
It looks like the problem was fixed in mongosee 4.13

But, does it work now?
There is no documentation about this: https://mongoosejs.com/docs/search.html?q=excludeIndexes :(

I have such schemas:

const TechnologySchema: Schema = new Schema({
  name: {type: String, unique: true, excludeIndexes: true}
}, {excludeIndexes: true});

const ProjectSchema: Schema = new mongoose.Schema({
  name: String,
  technologies: [TechnologySchema],
}, {excludeIndexes: true});

But in 'projects' collection I still have 'technologies.name' unique index :(

How can I prevent this?
thanks!

[vkarpov15]

We need some docs and improvements for this option, but here's how you make it work:

const ProjectSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
  name: String,
  technologies: { type: [TechnologySchema], excludeIndexes: true },
});

[victors1681]

@vkarpov15 man you deserve a beer! this excludeIndexes is very important option, when we are reusing Schema as a nested one. Definitely the doc need to improve that feature.