Added option MONGO_DOCUMENT_CLASS

[jeverling]

Pymongo can be instructed to return custom document classes, instead of dicts.
More information here:

http://api.mongodb.org/python/current/api/pymongo/connection.html#pymongo.connection.Connection.document_class
http://dirolf.com/2010/06/17/pymongo-1.7-released.html

This makes it easy to add functionality to the objects that are returned by Pymongo.

[dcrosta]

Awesome, great idea. Would you mind adding a test case?

[jeverling]

Not at all, will do so later this evening. :)

On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Dan Crosta notifications@github.comwrote:

Awesome, great idea. Would you mind adding a test case?

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[jeverling]

Tests added. I thought a while about where the tests belong, and decided in the end to put the tests into test_config.py.
Since I also wanted to test retrieval of a real object from the DB, and this was neither possible with FlaskRequestTest nor with FlaskPyMongoTest (due to self.mongo being already set up), I just used a second DB connection, and didn't bother to overwrite setUp/tearDown or something along the lines.
It seemed to be the most straightforward way to do it, YMMV.

By the way, apparently FlaskPyMongoTest.setUp/tearDown doesn't work as expected.
It sets self.dbname to self.class.name, and tries to drop this db. However, the DBNAME that is used should be 'test' if I'm not mistaken, since self.mongo is set up with the default configuration (self.app.name).

[jeverling]

I realized that it's no very good idea to drop the DB 'test', because that's a name that is quite likely to be already used.
I reverted to self.dbname = self.class.name, and added a line that sets this to self.app.config['MONGO_DBNAME'].
This way, 'CollectionTest' and 'CustomDocumentClassTest' are dropped, not 'test'.

[dcrosta]

Awesome, thanks! Yeah, the "test" database is created by default in MongoDB, so it's probably best neither to use it for testing modules like this, nor to delete it.

Released version 0.2.1 with this patch.