mongodb ttl java,在mongoDB集合上设置ttl-是在应用程序中还是在shell中？

I would like to set the ttl for a collection once, what is the idiomatic way of achieving this when building a java application that uses mongoDB? Do ppl simply apply settings like these in the shell? Or in the application code is it normal to check if a collection is already in the DB, if it is not then create it with the desired options?

Thanks!

解决方案

I never do index building in my application code anymore.

I confess that I used to. Everytime my application started up I would ensure all my indexes, until suddenly one day a beginner developer got hold of my code and accidently deleted a character within one of my index sequences.

Consequently the entire cluster froze and went down due to processing, in the foreground, this index building. Fortunately I had a number of delayed and non-index building slaves to repair from but still, I lost about 12 hours all in all and in turn 12 hours of business.

I would recommend you don't do your index building in the application code but instead carfully within your mongo console. That goes for any operation like this, even TTL indexing.