Creating Abstract Base Class in Mongoengine

I guess some how they missed it in the documentation or I have overlooked it. We had a situation where we needed to create an abstract base class. It is quite a simple process. Create the base class with meta, abstract: true.

class BaseAbstractClass(Document):
    meta = {
        'abstract': True
    }
    pass

Thus if I create another class inheriting from BaseAbstractClass say Child:

class Child(BaseAbstractClass):
    pass

Child would be created as a collection called child and not baseabstractclass.child.

Created on Nov 17 2011

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