I think if that is what you want to do, you go beyond the scope of the dal
and perhaps you should use the mongodb api instead of the dal. Perhaps we
should discuss it on web2py developers. Anyway, feel free to open a ticket
about this.
On Monday, 21 May 2012 04:55:01 UTC-5, Francisco Costa wrote:
>
> At the moment MongodbAdapter only has these filetypes
>
> class MongoDBAdapter(NoSQLAdapter):
> uploads_in_blob = True
>
> types = {
> 'boolean': bool,
> 'string': str,
> 'text': str,
> 'password': str,
> 'blob': str,
> 'upload': str,
> 'integer': long,
> 'bigint': long,
> 'float': float,
> 'double': float,
> 'date': datetime.date,
> 'time': datetime.time,
> 'datetime': datetime.datetime,
> 'id': long,
> 'reference': long,
> 'list:string': list,
> 'list:integer': list,
> 'list:reference': list,
> }
>
>
> Which means that if you want to insert or manage this:
>
> {
> "field1": "super",
> "field2": 300,
> "field3": ["one", "two", "three"],
> "field4" = {foo: "bar", michael: "jordan"}
> }
>
> You can't do it for *field4*
>
> Most MongoDB Collections do make use of document/dict datatype so this
> should be possible!
>
