Method as_pymongo

mongoengine/queryset/base.py:1297–1306

Instead of returning Document instances, return raw values from pymongo. This method is particularly useful if you don't need dereferencing and care primarily about the speed of data retrieval.

(self)

        return self.scalar(*fields)

    def as_pymongo(self):
        """Instead of returning Document instances, return raw values from
        pymongo.

        This method is particularly useful if you don't need dereferencing
        and care primarily about the speed of data retrieval.
        """
        queryset = self.clone()
        queryset._as_pymongo = True
        return queryset

    def max_time_ms(self, ms):
        """Wait `ms` milliseconds before killing the query on the server