Can I only use the classes, and use the Motor itself for any kind of database operations?

[caner-cetin]

Hello. Just for the type of safety, i will migrate my codebase from a dictionary based approach

post  = mongodb.find(...)
print(post["title"], post["author"], post["tags"])

to

class Post(Document):
    title = StringField(max_length=120, required=True)
    author = ReferenceField(User)
    tags = ListField(StringField(max_length=30))

post = mongodb.find(...)
print(post.title, post.author, post.tags)

My question is, can I only use the class part of the library, and use it with Motor? I dont want to use Motor from the ODM, I want to use Motor itself directly, but still, I need type safety.

thanks for this awesome project, and thanks for any replies!

[bagerard]

MongoEngine is deeply integrated with pymongo and MongoEngine's Document classes are tighly coupled with the pymongo connection so I think you'll have a hard time to achieve what you want.

You probably better use simple pydantic classes and then the repository pattern