Ability to manually override field names

[alexanderdean]

At the moment there is no way to unmarshal the following JSON using DictShield:

{
  "code" : "GBP",
  "self" : "http://localhost:8080/currencies/GBP" # Replacing with "link": works fine
}

... because the self key can't be defined as a field in a Document subclass. And similarly it's hard to work with the following:

{
    "customer" : "Bob",
    "email" : "bob@test.com",
    "link" : {
      "rel" : "self",
      "href" : "http://localhost:8080/customer/2",
      "type" : "text/xml"
    },
    "link" : {
      "rel" : "next",
      "href" : "http://localhost:8080/customer/3",
      "type" : "text/xml"
    },
    "link" : {
      "rel" : "prev",
      "href" : "http://localhost:8080/customer/1",
      "type" : "text/xml"
    },
}

... because there are three elements with the same name.

It would be nice to have some sort of Jackson @JsonProperty-style naming override, like this:

self_link = URLField(property_name="self", required=True)

self_atom = EmbeddedDocumentField(AtomLink, property_name="link")
next_atom = EmbeddedDocumentField(AtomLink, property_name="link")
prev_atom = EmbeddedDocumentField(AtomLink, property_name="link")

[j2labs]

Closing due to age. Can reopen if this is still requested.