Beanie MongoEngine Compatibility Fork

🔗 MongoEngine Compatibility Changes
This is a fork of the original Beanie ODM with modifications to make Links compatible with MongoEngine.
Key Changes:
- Link values changed from DBRef to ObjectId: Links now store
ObjectId('XXX')
instead of DBRef('RefCollectionName', ObjectId('XXX'))
- Improved mongoengine compatibility: Easier migration from mongoengine projects
- Same API: All other Beanie functionality remains unchanged
Migration from Original Beanie:
If you're migrating from the original Beanie, your existing data will continue to work. The change only affects how new Link references are stored.
Migration from MongoEngine:
This fork makes it easier to migrate from MongoEngine projects since the Link storage format is now compatible.
📢 About the Original Project
This fork is based on Beanie by Roman Right. The original project is transitioning from solo development to a team-based approach.
If you want to contribute to the original project or stay updated:
Join the Discord
Overview
Beanie - is an asynchronous Python object-document mapper (ODM) for MongoDB. Data models are based on Pydantic.
When using Beanie each database collection has a corresponding Document
that
is used to interact with that collection. In addition to retrieving data,
Beanie allows you to add, update, or delete documents from the collection as
well.
Beanie saves you time by removing boilerplate code, and it helps you focus on
the parts of your app that actually matter.
Data and schema migrations are supported by Beanie out of the box.
There is a synchronous version of Beanie ODM - Bunnet
Installation
PIP
pip install beanie-mongoengine-compat
UV
uv add beanie-mongoengine-compat
Poetry
poetry add beanie-mongoengine-compat
For more installation options (eg: aws
, gcp
, srv
...) you can look in the getting started
Example
import asyncio
from typing import Optional
from motor.motor_asyncio import AsyncIOMotorClient
from pydantic import BaseModel
from beanie import Document, Indexed, init_beanie
class Category(BaseModel):
name: str
description: str
class Product(Document):
name: str
description: Optional[str] = None
price: Indexed(float)
category: Category
async def example():
client = AsyncIOMotorClient("mongodb://user:pass@host:27017")
await init_beanie(database=client.db_name, document_models=[Product])
chocolate = Category(name="Chocolate", description="A preparation of roasted and ground cacao seeds.")
tonybar = Product(name="Tony's", price=5.95, category=chocolate)
await tonybar.insert()
product = await Product.find_one(Product.price < 10)
await product.set({Product.name:"Gold bar"})
if __name__ == "__main__":
asyncio.run(example())
Links
Documentation
- Original Doc - Tutorial, API documentation, and development guidelines.
- This Fork - MongoEngine compatibility fork
Original Project
Example Projects
Articles
Resources
- GitHub - GitHub page of the
project
- Changelog - list of all
the valuable changes
- Discord - ask your questions, share
ideas or just say
Hello!!
Acknowledgments
This project is based on the original Beanie project by Roman Right.
This repo is actually a fork of 07pepa's fork of the original Beanie project. Thanks for the use-uv
work!
Supported by JetBrains
