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| 1 | +# Migration to 2.0.0 and changes |
| 2 | + |
| 3 | +## Empty fields are not created in database |
| 4 | + |
| 5 | +If you are already aware about empty string vs `None` database conflicts, you should |
| 6 | +know that some string based generated forms behaviour are not consistent between |
| 7 | +version **<=1.0.0** and **2.0.0+**. |
| 8 | + |
| 9 | +In version **2.0.0** all fields with empty strings will be considered as `None` and |
| 10 | +will not be saved by default (this is easy to change for particular field to keep |
| 11 | +old behaviour for existed projects). |
| 12 | + |
| 13 | +This behaviour is different from previous versions, where |
| 14 | +{class}`~flask_mongoengine.db_fields.StringField` consider empty string as valid |
| 15 | +value, and save it to database. This is the opposite behavior against original |
| 16 | +[mongoengine] project and related database. |
| 17 | + |
| 18 | +```{warning} |
| 19 | +To keep easy migration and correct deprecation steps {func}`~.model_form` and |
| 20 | +{func}`.model_fields` still keep old behaviour. |
| 21 | +``` |
| 22 | + |
| 23 | +To be completely clear, let look on example. Let make a completely meaningless model, |
| 24 | +with all field types from [mongoengine], like this: |
| 25 | + |
| 26 | +```python |
| 27 | +"""example_app.models.py""" |
| 28 | +from flask_mongoengine import MongoEngine |
| 29 | + |
| 30 | +db = MongoEngine() |
| 31 | + |
| 32 | + |
| 33 | +class Todo(db.Document): |
| 34 | + """Test model for AllFieldsModel.""" |
| 35 | + string = db.StringField() |
| 36 | + |
| 37 | + |
| 38 | +class Embedded(db.EmbeddedDocument): |
| 39 | + """Test embedded for AllFieldsModel.""" |
| 40 | + string = db.StringField() |
| 41 | + |
| 42 | + |
| 43 | +class AllFieldsModel(db.Document): |
| 44 | + """Meaningless Document with all field types.""" |
| 45 | + binary_field = db.BinaryField() |
| 46 | + boolean_field = db.BooleanField() |
| 47 | + date_field = db.DateField() |
| 48 | + date_time_field = db.DateTimeField() |
| 49 | + decimal_field = db.DecimalField() |
| 50 | + dict_field = db.DictField() |
| 51 | + email_field = db.EmailField() |
| 52 | + embedded_document_field = db.EmbeddedDocumentField(document_type=Embedded) |
| 53 | + file_field = db.FileField() |
| 54 | + float_field = db.FloatField() |
| 55 | + int_field = db.IntField() |
| 56 | + list_field = db.ListField(field=db.StringField) |
| 57 | + reference_field = db.ReferenceField(document_type=Todo) |
| 58 | + sorted_list_field = db.SortedListField(field=db.StringField) |
| 59 | + string_field = db.StringField() |
| 60 | + url_field = db.URLField() |
| 61 | + cached_reference_field = db.CachedReferenceField(document_type=Todo) |
| 62 | + complex_date_time_field = db.ComplexDateTimeField() |
| 63 | + dynamic_field = db.DynamicField() |
| 64 | + embedded_document_list_field = db.EmbeddedDocumentListField(document_type=Embedded) |
| 65 | + enum_field = db.EnumField(enum=[1, 2]) |
| 66 | + generic_embedded_document_field = db.GenericEmbeddedDocumentField() |
| 67 | + generic_lazy_reference_field = db.GenericLazyReferenceField() |
| 68 | + geo_json_base_field = db.GeoJsonBaseField() |
| 69 | + geo_point_field = db.GeoPointField() |
| 70 | + image_field = db.ImageField() |
| 71 | + lazy_reference_field = db.LazyReferenceField(document_type=Todo) |
| 72 | + line_string_field = db.LineStringField() |
| 73 | + long_field = db.LongField() |
| 74 | + map_field = db.MapField(field=db.StringField()) |
| 75 | + multi_line_string_field = db.MultiLineStringField() |
| 76 | + multi_point_field = db.MultiPointField() |
| 77 | + multi_polygon_field = db.MultiPolygonField() |
| 78 | + point_field = db.PointField() |
| 79 | + polygon_field = db.PolygonField() |
| 80 | + sequence_field = db.SequenceField() |
| 81 | + uuid_field = db.UUIDField() |
| 82 | + generic_reference_field = db.GenericReferenceField(document_type=Todo) |
| 83 | + object_id_field = db.ObjectIdField() |
| 84 | +``` |
| 85 | + |
| 86 | +Now let's make an example instance of such object and save it to db. |
| 87 | + |
| 88 | +```python |
| 89 | +from example_app.models import AllFieldsModel |
| 90 | + |
| 91 | +obj = AllFieldsModel() |
| 92 | +obj.save() |
| 93 | +``` |
| 94 | + |
| 95 | +On database side this document will be created: |
| 96 | + |
| 97 | +```json |
| 98 | +{ |
| 99 | + "_id": { |
| 100 | + "$oid": "62df93ac3fe82c8656aae60d" |
| 101 | + }, |
| 102 | + "dict_field": {}, |
| 103 | + "list_field": [], |
| 104 | + "sorted_list_field": [], |
| 105 | + "embedded_document_list_field": [], |
| 106 | + "map_field": {}, |
| 107 | + "sequence_field": 1 |
| 108 | +} |
| 109 | +``` |
| 110 | + |
| 111 | +For empty form Flask-Mongoengine **2.0.0** will create exactly the same document, |
| 112 | +old project version will try to fill some fields, based on |
| 113 | +{class}`~flask_mongoengine.db_fields.StringField`. |
| 114 | + |
| 115 | +[mongoengine]: https://docs.mongoengine.org/ |
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