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DynamicDocument issue for Document with inheritance

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Hi There,
I had an issue today while using DynamicDocument on a collection that makes use of some inheritance.
Note that using .exclude('_cls') is solving my problem but I thought it could be good to let you know.
Below is a reproducible scenario. BTW mongoengine is awesome, thanks for the hard work!

class Geek(Document):
    meta = {'allow_inheritance': True}
    name = StringField()

class AwesomeGeek(Geek):
    has_laptop = BooleanField()

gk = AwesomeGeek(name='John', has_laptop=True).save()

class DynamicGeek(DynamicDocument):
    meta = {'collection': 'geek'}


DynamicGeek.objects.first()   # raises mongoengine.errors.FieldDoesNotExist
                                                 #The field 'has_laptop' does not exist on the document
                                                 # Geek.AwesomeGeek
DynamicGeek.objects.exclude('_cls').first()    # works great

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Reproduce the scenario with Geek, AwesomeGeek, and DynamicGeek, then compare DynamicGeek.objects.first() with the .exclude('_cls') variant. Trace the inheritance-related field handling and make the first query work without excluding _cls, while preserving the working behavior shown in the report.

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Tech stack
mongodb, python
Domain
database
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
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Newbie friendliness
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