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Amin Alaee
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Mongox: Familiar Python MongoDB ODM

Mongox is a an async MongoDB ODM (Object Document Mapper)built on top of Motor and Pydantic.
Mongox has a simple syntax, is easy to pick-up for people who have experience working with Python ORMs and is fully type-annotated.

You can install the python package:

pip install mongox
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And you can define your models/collections using the Pydantic syntax:

import asyncio

import mongox

client = mongox.Client("mongodb://localhost:27017")
db = client.get_database("test_db")


class Movie(mongox.Model):
    name: str
    year: int

    class Meta:
        collection = db.get_collection("movies")
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You can now insert and query some collections:

movie = await Movie(name="Forrest Gump", year=1994).insert()
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Since Mongox is built on top of Pydantic, it plays well with Mypy and has auto-complete in IDE.

You can then query the document with:

movie = await Movie.query(Movie.name == "Forrest Gump").get()
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Or to get all collections:

movies = await Movie.query().all()
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Please visit the project page for documentation and full info here.

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