Allow documents to self-reference about mongokit HOT 6 CLOSED

Is this coming anytime soon? It would be tremendously helpful.

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Well at this time, it is mostly a proposal and open to a discussion. This is a big feature which may imply big modification. Can you say more for your real use case ? Maybe a simple turn around can be found...

(btw, feel free to vote on this feature).

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Sure. My simplified use case looks like this:

class User(Document):
    structure = {
        'friends':[User],
    }

Guaranteed not to self-reference. I'd just like a better solution than stashing raw ObjectId's, since I'm using autorefs in several other places already.

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The hard part in your example is the infinite loop issue. When to stop ?

Let's say Bob have a friend Steve who have a friend John who have a friend Marc...

If you get Bob, Mongokit will pull out Steve, John, Marc and all John's friends and all Marc's friends...

With a tied connected graph, you can retrieve the entire collection with only one request...

Are you sure you want to do that ?

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I didn't realize autorefs actively loaded documents. If they're not lazy loaded, then ObjectId's may actually be a bit safer.

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Yes, dbrefs aren't lazy loaded... maybe they should ? I don't know...

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