I set up my model in MongoEngine, and try to query it (I already have a few dozen documents in my collection), but the queryset is empty:
>>> mymodel.objects
[]
I can add new documents, and those show up in subsequent queries, but there's sign of my preexisting documents:
>>> thingy = mymodel(a=2, b=3)
>>> thingy.save()
>>> mymodel.objects
[<mymodel: mymodel object>]
What gives? For reference, here's my model definition:
from django.conf import settings
from mongoengine import *
connect(settings.MONGO_DATABASE,
host=settings.MONGO_HOST, port=settings.MONGO_PORT)
class metadata(Document):
meta = {'collection': 'metadata'}
_id = StringField()
name = StringField()
_type = StringField()
terms = ListField()
level = StringField()
abbreviation = StringField()
latest_update = DateTimeField()
feature_flags = ListField()
session_details = DictField()
legislature_name = StringField()
lower_chamber_name = StringField()
upper_chamber_term = IntField()
upper_chamber_name = StringField()
lower_chamber_term = IntField()
lower_chamber_title = StringField()
upper_chamber_title = StringField()
_ignored_scraped_sessions = ListField()
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