Migrating data

[Otto]

Hi,

salat seems to be very intolerant to changes in the database, throwing exceptions if a field type has changed or similar.

Whats the best to migrate the data structures in mongo with Salat?

Thanks,
Otto

[rose katherine toomey]

Hi Otto,

When you change the model, you need to manually update your documents to match the new expectations.

Best,
Rose

[Wes Freeman]

This is typical with most of the "ODMs", by the way--in particular with type changes. 

Can you use Options to have fields in your model that might not be in your database? (I think I tried this at one point, and it worked--is it a best practice?)

Wes

[Otto]

So the actual migration, you would have to do manually. Makes sense somehow :)