Method: projects.databases.collectionGroups.indexes.create
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Creates a composite index. This returns a google.longrunning.Operation which may be used to track the status of the creation. The metadata for the operation will be the type IndexOperationMetadata.
HTTP request
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POST https://firestore.googleapis.com/v1beta2/{parent=projects/*/databases/*/collectionGroups/*}/indexes
The URLs use gRPC Transcoding syntax.
Path parameters
Parameters
parent
string
A parent name of the form projects/{projectId}/databases/{databaseId}/collectionGroups/{collectionId}
Request body
The request body contains an instance of Index.
Response body
If successful, the response body contains a newly created instance of Operation .
Authorization scopes
Requires one of the following OAuth scopes:
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/datastore
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform
For more information, see the OAuth 2.0 Overview .
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Last updated 2026-03-06 UTC.
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