I'm using spring-data-mongodb-1.2.0.RELEASE.
I have two classes A and B where B has a reference to A and it is annotated with @DBRef.

Class A:

```
@Document(collection = "a")
public class A {
@Id
public String id;

/** The TicketGrantingTicket this is associated with. */
@Field
public String name;

public A(String id, String name) {
    this.id = id;
    this.name = name;
}
}

```

Class B:

```
@Document(collection = "b")
public class B {

@Id
public String id;

@Field
public String name;

@DBRef
@Indexed
public A a;

public B(String id, String name, A a) {
    super();
    this.id = id;
    this.name = name;
    this.a = a;
}
}

```

Since I'm quering for all instances of B that are refering to a certain A:

```
B fromDB = mongoOperations.findOne(Query.query(Criteria.where("a.$id").is(a1.id)), B.class);

```

I need it to be indexed.

After the first insertion of a B instance into MongoDB an index should be created.
As can be seen below it doesn't:
![](https://i.stack.imgur.com/58AHR.png)

Does anyone know how can I create such an index ?

In addition it looks like the DBRef filed (as can be seen by the mongo shell) does not match to the format as it is defined at
[MongoDB documentation](http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/applications/database-references/#format).

Am I missing something here?