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Document serialization uses field order to ensure a strict order is set (#296)

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Ross Lawley 2013-04-26 11:38:45 +00:00
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@ -24,6 +24,9 @@ objects** as class attributes to the document class::
title = StringField(max_length=200, required=True)
date_modified = DateTimeField(default=datetime.datetime.now)
As BSON (the binary format for storing data in mongodb) is order dependent,
documents are serialized based on their field order.
Dynamic document schemas
========================
One of the benefits of MongoDb is dynamic schemas for a collection, whilst data
@ -51,6 +54,7 @@ be saved ::
There is one caveat on Dynamic Documents: fields cannot start with `_`
Dynamic fields are stored in alphabetical order *after* any declared fields.
Fields
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