When I make a query in Mongodb using Mongokit in Python, it returns a json document object. However I need to use the return value as a model type that I have defined. For example, if I have the class:
class User(Document):
structure = {
'name': basestring
}
and make the query
user = db.users.find_one({'name':'Mike'})
I want user to be an object of type User, so that I can embed it into other objects that have fields of type User. However it just returns a json document. Is there a way to cast it or something? This seems like something that should be very intuitive and easy to do.
From what I can see Mongokit is built on the top of pymongo, and pymongo find has an argument called as_class:
as_class (optional): class to use for documents in the query result (default is document_class)
http://api.mongodb.org/python/current/api/pymongo/collection.html#pymongo.collection.Collection.find