Discovery

Database/collection "discovery"

Default behaviour

>>> class AuthenticationGroup(Thingy):
...     pass

>>> connect("mongodb://localhost/")
>>> AuthenticationGroup.collection
Collection(Database(MongoClient(host=['localhost:27017'], ...), 'authentication'), 'group')

Use mismatching names for Thingy class and database collection

You can either specify the collection name:

>>> class Foo(Thingy):
...   collection_name = "bar"

or the collection directly:

>>> class Foo(Thingy):
...   collection = db.bar

You can then check what collection is being used with:

>>> Foo.collection
Collection(Database(MongoClient('localhost', 27017), 'database'), 'bar')