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