createIndex()

This operation creates an index for a specific collection.

createIndex(data): Promise<ResStatus>

Request Syntax

milvusClient.createIndex([
    {
       collection_name: string,
       field_name: string,
       index_name?: string,
       index_type: string,
       metric_type: string,
       params?: KeyValueObj,
       timeout?: number
     }
 ]);

PARAMETERS:

• collection_name (string) -

  [REQUIRED]

  The name of an existing collection.

• field_name (string) -

  [REQUIRED]

  The name of the field in which to create an index.

• index_name (string) -

  The name of the index to create.

• index_type (string) -

  The type of the index to create.

• metric_type (string) -

  The metric type used to measure vector distance. Possible values: IP, L2, COSINE, HAMMING, JACCARD, BM25 (used only for full text search). For more information, refer to Metric Types.

  This is available only when the specified field is a vector field.

• params (string) -

  Other index-specific parameters.

• timeout (number) -

  The timeout duration for this operation. Setting this to None indicates that this operation timeouts when any response arrives or any error occurs.

RETURNS Promise<ResStatus>

This method returns a promise that resolves to a ResStatus object.

{
    code: number,
    error_code: string | number,
    reason: string
}

PARAMETERS:

• code (number) -

  A code that indicates the operation result. It remains 0 if this operation succeeds.

• error_code (string | number) -

  An error code that indicates an occurred error. It remains Success if this operation succeeds.

• reason (string) -

  The reason that indicates the reason for the reported error. It remains an empty string if this operation succeeds.

Example

milvusClient._createIndex({
   collection_name: "my_collection",
   field_name: "vector_field",
   index_name: "vector_index"
 });