Pydantic as mongo ORM

Need your ideas for a possible Pydantic extension

Hello, although I am new to Python ecosystem, I’ve found that pydantic is really helpful on lots of cases. In fact, I’ve tried to write something similar named Prodict but noticing pydantic, I quit developing it in favor of pydantic. Because it looks like you guys already did most of the work what I wanted to do with Prodict. Thank you this awesome package!

I’ve developed a MongoDB document mapper with pydantic. It converts pymongo find and find_one results to pydantic objects. The usage is almost exactly same, the only difference is if you provide a class derived from BaseModel, the result is mapped to an object instantiated from that class.

from pydantic import BaseModel
import pymongodantic

class Customer(BaseModel):
    _id: Any
    name: str
    age: int

mongo_client = MongoClient(...).get_database('test')
customers_table = ModeledCollection(database=db_test, name='customers').
customer = customers_table.find_one({'name':'john'}, model=Customer)
print(customer)
# Customer _id = ObjectId("...."), name = 'john', age=25

# It also works for find_one
customers = customers_table.find({}, model=Customer)
for customer in customers:
    print(isinstance(customer, Customer))  # True

So my question is: Would you consider to make pymongodantic an extension of pydantic like ujson? If so, what should I do?

[RamiAwar]

I’ve developed a wrapper around PyMongo and Pydantic that would make this easy, hope somebody finds this useful:

https://ramiawar.github.io/Mongomantic/

[manditri]

Nice work @RamiAwar! Why is archived and read-only?

there are better alternatives out there now with full async support and fancy sprinkles

@RamiAwar what are these better alternatives that you mentioned. I have been looking for something in this direction. Thanks.