MongoEngine / MongoEngine/mongoengine

EmailField: To lowercase

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Description

I noticed, that when using an EmailField, the email will not be casted to a lowercase string. This leads to the issue, that there a multiple E-Mails within the same database when using unique=True. Is this the expected behavior?

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Research direction

Start by reproducing the EmailField behavior described in this issue with a unique=True field and differently cased email values in MongoDB. Read the existing EmailField and uniqueness behavior before determining whether lowercase casting is expected; done should include a decided behavior and coverage for duplicate case variants.

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Assessment

Tech stack
mongodb, python
Domain
database
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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