[Answered ]-Access original Mongodb data of a Django Model

I don’t think there’s a good way to do this.

The fields selected are limited at query time to the fields in the model:

https://github.com/django-nonrel/mongodb-engine/blob/master/django_mongodb_engine/compiler.py#L123

https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/django/db/models/sql/query.py#L1638

Can you use a dict field/embedded object and have some kind of document level namespace to grab these from?

If there’s a way to do this using a SQL database and it doesn’t work with MongoDB Engine, please open a bug report. Otherwise I’m afraid you need to get this feature into Django first 🙂