Jason Wang jason-w

jason-w / gist:4969476

Created February 17, 2013 00:47

Helper functions that converts a MongoEngine Document to a Python Dict so it can be easily converted to JSON.

	class Person (db.Document):

	name = db.StringField(required=True)
	created_date = db.ComplexDateTimeField(default=datetime.datetime.utcnow(), required=True)

	def to_dict(self):
	return helper.mongo_to_dict(self,[])

	#helper.py
	def mongo_to_dict(obj, exclude_fields):

jason-w / gist:4973476

Created February 17, 2013 21:06

Convert document field type in MongoDB.


	// list of $type values: http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/reference/operator/type/
	db.person.find( { 'integer_id' : { $type : 2 } } ).forEach( function (x) {
	x.integer_id = new NumberLong(x.integer_id); // convert field to Long
	db.person.save(x);
	});