Consider mongoengine

[matthewjwhite]

MongoEngine is neat little ORM for Python, w/ Mongo.

See the description in #14 for more context, could help to clean up the linkage b/w DB/YAML field names and Python variable names.

To Close

• [ ] Determine whether it's worth integrating into this project.

[matthewjwhite]

Pros

• Well-supported.
• Would obsolete the User::save method, using its built-in, and likely other code.

Cons

• Not clear how to support a different field name vs. variable name in code. Was hoping to be able to set w/ metadata.
• User inherits from Entity. Multiple inheritance may introduce additional complications if it also inherits from Document.
• A bit too much magic for comfort. You define a Document class, with class variables whose names end up mapping to the names of the instance variables of the objects you retrieve from the DB.

[matthewjwhite]

Not planning on using mongoengine at this point - the from_db/to_db stuff (see code) has worked out fine so far.