Add arbitrary metadata capture to BaseField.

Includes ability to detect and report conflicts.

mongoengine/base/fields.py

@@ -42,7 +42,8 @@ class BaseField(object):
     def __init__(self, db_field=None, name=None, required=False, default=None,
                  unique=False, unique_with=None, primary_key=False,
                  validation=None, choices=None, verbose_name=None,
-                 help_text=None, null=False, sparse=False, custom_data=None):
+                 help_text=None, null=False, sparse=False, custom_data=None
+                 **kwargs):
         """
         :param db_field: The database field to store this field in
             (defaults to the name of the field)
@@ -70,6 +71,7 @@ class BaseField(object):
         :param sparse: (optional) `sparse=True` combined with `unique=True` and `required=False`
             means that uniqueness won't be enforced for `None` values
         :param custom_data: (optional) Custom metadata for this field.
+        :param **kwargs: (optional) Arbitrary indirection-free metadata for this field.
         """
         self.db_field = (db_field or name) if not primary_key else '_id'
 
@@ -90,6 +92,15 @@ class BaseField(object):
         self._owner_document = None
         self.custom_data = custom_data
         
+        conflicts = set(dir(self)).intersect(kwargs)
+        if conflicts:
+            raise TypeError("%s already has attribute(s): %s" % (
+                self.__class__.__name__,
+                ', '.join(conflicts)
+            ))
+            
+        self.__dict__.update(kwargs)
+
         # Adjust the appropriate creation counter, and save our local copy.
         if self.db_field == '_id':
             self.creation_counter = BaseField.auto_creation_counter