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## 20.13. Indexing

| Note
This documents schema based indexes, a feature that was introduced in Neo4j 2.0, see Section 20.18, “Legacy indexing” for legacy indexing.

For more details about indexes and the optional schema in Neo4j, see Section 3.7, “Schema”.

### 20.13.1. Create index

This will start a background job in the database that will create and populate the index. You can check the status of your index by listing all the indexes for the relevant label. The created index will show up, but have a state of `POPULATING` until the index is ready, where it is marked as `ONLINE`.

Example request

- `POST` `http://localhost:7474/db/data/schema/index/person`
- `Accept:` `application/json; charset=UTF-8`
- `Content-Type:` `application/json`

    {
      "property_keys" : [ "name" ]
    }

Example response

- `200:` `OK`
- `Content-Type:` `application/json; charset=UTF-8`

    {
      "label" : "person",
      "property_keys" : [ "name" ]
    }

### 20.13.2. List indexes for a label

Example request

- `GET` `http://localhost:7474/db/data/schema/index/user`
- `Accept:` `application/json; charset=UTF-8`

Example response

- `200:` `OK`
- `Content-Type:` `application/json; charset=UTF-8`

    [ {
      "property_keys" : [ "name" ],
      "label" : "user"
    } ]

### 20.13.3. Drop index

Drop index

Example request

- `DELETE` `http://localhost:7474/db/data/schema/index/SomeLabel/name`
- `Accept:` `application/json; charset=UTF-8`

Example response

- `204:` `No Content`

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