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    marcel-maré-11434  11 years ago

    Thanks for this slice!

    One of the reasons of using MongoDB would be to make use of its (non-SQL) query facilities. Using DAL puts a SQL-esque layer on top of MongoDB, which is useful for auth or forms. But if I additionally want to use MongoDB specific functionality (to obtain total world domination of course, what else?), how would one use the DAL connection to do this? How can one get a connection to the Mongo database from the DAL connection pool?

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    • spametki 11 years ago

      Hi. You can avoid using DAL commands by using the instance connection this way:

      >>> mycon = db._adapter.connection

      where mycon is a pymongo.database.Database instance

      Or the equivalent code for using the Python driver directly

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