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Wrong mapfield fields

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Hi all,
i'm juggling with strange behaviour passing from 0.8.x to 0.15

In 0.8 this code works perfectly:


from  mongoengine import *

class Component(EmbeddedDocument):
    item = StringField()

class Model(DynamicDocument):
    name = StringField()
    Components = MapField(EmbeddedDocumentField(Component))

d = { 'name': 'root',
        'Components' : {
            'first': {'_cls':'Component', 'item':'foo'},
            'second': {'_cls':'Component', 'item':'bar'}
}}
m = Model(**d)
for c in m.Components.values():
    assert isinstance(c, Component)


But in 0.15 of mongoengine mapfields is populated with dicts, so it fails in the assertion.

This is the main differences:

{'second': <Component: Component object>, 'first': <Component: Component object>}

{'second': {'item': 'bar', '_cls': 'Component'}, 'first': {'item': 'foo', '_cls': 'Component'}}

Is this relathed to DynamicDocument class in any manner?

Thank you
Glauco

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Start by running the provided Python reproduction against the affected mongoengine version and compare MapField values with the expected EmbeddedDocument instances. Inspect MapField and EmbeddedDocumentField conversion behavior, then add a regression test covering a DynamicDocument map and verify that its values are Component objects.

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