Add commentary on ttl index

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Shane Kilkelly 2016-08-11 12:03:50 +01:00
parent 05e390ef89
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@ -2,3 +2,13 @@ notifications-sharelatex
===============
An API for managing user notifications in ShareLaTeX
database indexes
================
For notification expiry to work, a ttl index on `notifications.expiresFrom` must be created:
```javascript
db.notifications.createIndex({expiresFrom: 1}, {expireAfterSeconds: (60*60*24*30)})
```

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@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ module.exports =
templateKey: notification.templateKey
expires: notification.expires || false
# ttl index on `expiresFrom` field
# in Mongo, TTL indexes only work on date fields,
# and ignore the document when that field is missing
if doc.expires
doc.expiresFrom = new Date()
db.notifications.insert(doc, callback)