I read the MongoDB documentation in order to figure the how to expire a document using the Time To Live property.
The doc says:
To expire data after a specified number of seconds has passed since the indexed field, create a TTL index on a field that holds values of BSON date type... For example, the following operation creates an index on the log_events collection’s createdAt field and specifies the expireAfterSeconds value of 3600 to set the expiration time to be one hour after the time specified by createdAt
db.log_events.createIndex( { "createdAt": 1 }, { expireAfterSeconds: 3600 } )
When adding documents to the log_events collection, set the createdAt field to the current time:
db.log_events.insert( {
"createdAt": new Date(),
"logEvent": 2,
"logMessage": "Success!"
} )
How do I do that using node Monk?
Should be:
db.log_events.ensureIndex({ "createdAt": 1 }, { expireAfterSeconds: 3600 })
Documentation on ensureIndex
Ensures that indexes exist, if it does not it creates it