Help & testers welcomed for MongoKat, an ORM strongly inspired by MongoKit

[Sylvain Zimmer]

Hi,

With MongoKit not being maintained anymore, I've seen many people ask for a path to upgrade to PyMongo 3.0+, which requires significant changes in the ORM code.

We love MongoKit's simple API and because we had our whole codebase depending on it, we started a similar project based on PyMongo 3.0+ from the start:

https://github.com/pricingassistant/mongokat

We tried forking MongoKit at first, but it was too much work and we decided to start fresh, with a smaller feature set. We've been running it in production for more than a year so the core functionality is definitely stable. 

We made the transition from MongoKit as smooth as possible, with a subset of the test suite of MongoKit passing largely unmodified. There are a few differences (most notably splitting Document and Collection) but with proper init code they can be made transparent.

We'd love to have your feedback on this. Depending on how the community feels, we could either have the API diverge, or continue adding features to have parity with MongoKit and be a drop-in replacement (and maybe the codebase for a 2.x version?).

Cheers!