multi document insert using mongoengine into mongodb

Question

In my flask app I am using MongoeEgine. I am trying to insert multiple documents into my places collection in my MongoDB.

My document class is defined as

Answer 1

You try to initialize Document object for multiple documents at once. If you look at mongoengine's BaseDocument class, you'll see, that its __init__ method takes a dictionary of keyword arguments, which relate to fields of one single document.

If you want to do a bulk save, you have to make a list of places instances and pass it to insert() method.

a = []
a.append(places(**{"name": 'test', "loc": [-87,101]}))
a.append(places(**{"name": 'test', "loc": [-88,101]}))
x = places.objects.insert(a)