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Docs chapter "Patterns for Flask" has a section dedicated to MongoKit, but MongoKit lib seems unmaintained and is not compatible with recent versions of PyMongo. This commit replaces MongoKit guide with a new one using MongoEngine. Closes #2907
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.. mongokit-pattern:
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MongoKit in Flask
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=================
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Using a document database rather than a full DBMS gets more common these days.
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This pattern shows how to use MongoKit, a document mapper library, to
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integrate with MongoDB.
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This pattern requires a running MongoDB server and the MongoKit library
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installed.
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There are two very common ways to use MongoKit. I will outline each of them
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here:
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Declarative
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-----------
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The default behavior of MongoKit is the declarative one that is based on
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common ideas from Django or the SQLAlchemy declarative extension.
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Here an example :file:`app.py` module for your application::
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from flask import Flask
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from mongokit import Connection, Document
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# configuration
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MONGODB_HOST = 'localhost'
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MONGODB_PORT = 27017
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# create the little application object
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app = Flask(__name__)
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app.config.from_object(__name__)
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# connect to the database
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connection = Connection(app.config['MONGODB_HOST'],
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app.config['MONGODB_PORT'])
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To define your models, just subclass the `Document` class that is imported
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from MongoKit. If you've seen the SQLAlchemy pattern you may wonder why we do
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not have a session and even do not define a `init_db` function here. On the
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one hand, MongoKit does not have something like a session. This sometimes
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makes it more to type but also makes it blazingly fast. On the other hand,
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MongoDB is schemaless. This means you can modify the data structure from one
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insert query to the next without any problem. MongoKit is just schemaless
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too, but implements some validation to ensure data integrity.
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Here is an example document (put this also into :file:`app.py`, e.g.)::
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from mongokit import ValidationError
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def max_length(length):
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def validate(value):
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if len(value) <= length:
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return True
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# must have %s in error format string to have mongokit place key in there
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raise ValidationError('%s must be at most {} characters long'.format(length))
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return validate
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class User(Document):
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structure = {
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'name': unicode,
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'email': unicode,
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}
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validators = {
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'name': max_length(50),
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'email': max_length(120)
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}
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use_dot_notation = True
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def __repr__(self):
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return '<User %r>' % (self.name)
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# register the User document with our current connection
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connection.register([User])
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This example shows you how to define your schema (named structure), a
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validator for the maximum character length and uses a special MongoKit feature
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called `use_dot_notation`. Per default MongoKit behaves like a python
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dictionary but with `use_dot_notation` set to ``True`` you can use your
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documents like you use models in nearly any other ORM by using dots to
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separate between attributes.
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You can insert entries into the database like this:
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>>> from yourapplication.database import connection
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>>> from yourapplication.models import User
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>>> collection = connection['test'].users
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>>> user = collection.User()
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>>> user['name'] = u'admin'
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>>> user['email'] = u'admin@localhost'
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>>> user.save()
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Note that MongoKit is kinda strict with used column types, you must not use a
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common `str` type for either `name` or `email` but unicode.
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Querying is simple as well:
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>>> list(collection.User.find())
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[<User u'admin'>]
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>>> collection.User.find_one({'name': u'admin'})
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<User u'admin'>
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.. _MongoKit: http://bytebucket.org/namlook/mongokit/
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PyMongo Compatibility Layer
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---------------------------
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If you just want to use PyMongo, you can do that with MongoKit as well. You
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may use this process if you need the best performance to get. Note that this
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example does not show how to couple it with Flask, see the above MongoKit code
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for examples::
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from MongoKit import Connection
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connection = Connection()
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To insert data you can use the `insert` method. We have to get a
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collection first, this is somewhat the same as a table in the SQL world.
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>>> collection = connection['test'].users
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>>> user = {'name': u'admin', 'email': u'admin@localhost'}
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>>> collection.insert(user)
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MongoKit will automatically commit for us.
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To query your database, you use the collection directly:
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>>> list(collection.find())
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[{u'_id': ObjectId('4c271729e13823182f000000'), u'name': u'admin', u'email': u'admin@localhost'}]
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>>> collection.find_one({'name': u'admin'})
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{u'_id': ObjectId('4c271729e13823182f000000'), u'name': u'admin', u'email': u'admin@localhost'}
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These results are also dict-like objects:
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>>> r = collection.find_one({'name': u'admin'})
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>>> r['email']
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u'admin@localhost'
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For more information about MongoKit, head over to the
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`website <https://github.com/namlook/mongokit>`_.
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