inBackground option not available for ensureIndex

[radicaled]

It seems that ArangoDB's inBackground option for ensureIndex (see: https://www.arangodb.com/docs/stable/indexing-index-basics.html#creating-indexes-in-background) is not available via arangojs.

Or, is it actually available and this is just a bug with the available typins for arangojs?

[pluma]

The parameter is undocumented for the HTTP API. I've asked for clarification whether this is an omission or intentional.

[radicaled]

Interesting. I just assumed that arangosh was calling the HTTP API under the hood, so anything valid there was valid in the HTTP API.

Anyway, for reference, the other drivers do implement inBackground, so maybe the HTTP documents are out of date.

• PHP: http://arangodb.github.io/arangodb-php/classes/ArangoDBClient.CollectionHandler.html#constant_OPTION_IN_BACKGROUND
• Java: https://arangodb.github.io/arangodb-java-driver/latest/com/arangodb/model/IndexOptions.html#inBackground-java.lang.Boolean-
• Go: https://github.com/arangodb/go-driver/blob/0817df9ff66e825e44f0731996f01c524df16f3c/collection_indexes.go#L94