dbref – Tools for manipulating DBRefs (references to documents stored in MongoDB)

Tools for manipulating DBRefs (references to MongoDB documents).

class bson.dbref.DBRef(collection, id, database=None, _extra={}, \*kwargs*)

Initialize a new DBRef.

Raises TypeError if collection or database is not an instance of basestring (str in python 3). database is optional and allows references to documents to work across databases. Any additional keyword arguments will create additional fields in the resultant embedded document.

Parameters:
  • collection: name of the collection the document is stored in
  • id: the value of the document’s “_id” field
  • database (optional): name of the database to reference
  • **kwargs (optional): additional keyword arguments will create additional, custom fields

See also

The MongoDB documentation on

dbrefs

  • as_doc()

    Get the SON document representation of this DBRef.

    Generally not needed by application developers

  • collection

    Get the name of this DBRef’s collection as unicode.

  • database

    Get the name of this DBRef’s database.

    Returns None if this DBRef doesn’t specify a database.

  • id

    Get this DBRef’s _id.