Dynamic collection creation with unique indexes

To be clear, I’m trying to replicate this behavior: https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/core/index-unique/#unique-constraint-across-separate-documents.

I’m calling *mongo.Collection.Indexes().CreateOne with a mongo.IndexModel argument. My code is below. It errors on the second call to indexCollection (indexcnt == 1) with:

➜  ./mongo_test
2020/03/03 12:50:24 indexed the collection 1 time(s).
2020/03/03 12:50:24 failed to index DB: (IndexOptionsConflict) Inde
x with name: param3_1_param1_1_param2_1 already exists with a diffe
rent name

Ahh, so let me give this index a common name across my applications (and in this test code) to see if it doesn’t break.

I’m using mongo-go-driver v1.3.1 with go 1.14. My mongod version is

➜ ./bin/mongod -version
db version v4.2.2
git version: a0bbbff6ada159e19298d37946ac8dc4b497eadf
allocator: system
modules: none
build environment:
    distarch: x86_64
    target_arch: x86_64

My code

package main

import (
	"context"
	"flag"
	"log"
	"time"

	"go.mongodb.org/mongo-driver/mongo"
	"go.mongodb.org/mongo-driver/mongo/options"
	"go.mongodb.org/mongo-driver/mongo/readpref"
)

func main() {
	flagURI := flag.String("uri", "mongodb://localhost:27017", "URI of the MongoDB host (e.g. mongodb://localhost:27017")
	flag.Parse()
	client, err := mongo.NewClient(options.Client().ApplyURI(*flagURI))
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatalf("failed to obtain a MongoDB client: %s", err)
	}
	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 20*time.Second)
	defer cancel()
	err = client.Connect(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatalf("failed to connect to mongod: %s", err)
	}
	if err := client.Ping(ctx, readpref.Primary()); err != nil {
		log.Fatalf("failed to ping mongod: %s", err)
	}
	db := client.Database("brand-new-db")
	coll := db.Collection("brand-new-collection")
	var indexcnt int
	if err := indexCollection(coll); err != nil {
		log.Printf("indexed the collection %d time(s).", indexcnt)
		log.Fatalf("failed to index DB: %s", err)
	}
	indexcnt++
	if err := indexCollection(coll); err != nil {
		log.Printf("indexed the collection %d time(s).", indexcnt)
		log.Fatalf("failed to index DB: %s", err)
	}
}

func indexCollection(coll *mongo.Collection) error {
	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 20*time.Second)
	defer cancel()
	t := true
	_, err := coll.Indexes().CreateOne(ctx, mongo.IndexModel{
		Keys: map[string]int{
			"param1": 1,
			"param2": 1,
			"param3": 1,
		},
		Options: &options.IndexOptions{
			Unique: &t,
		},
	})
	return err
}