Previously, when reading a LazyReferenceField from the DB, it was stored
internally in the parent document's _data field as an ObjectId. However, this
meant that equality tests using an enclosing EmbeddedDocument would not return
True when the EmbeddedDocument being compared to contained a DBRef or Document
in _data. Enclosing Documents were largely unaffected because they look at the
primary key for equality (which EmbeddedDocuments lack).
This makes the internal Python representation of a LazyReferenceField (before
the LazyReference itself has been constructed) a DBRef, using code identical to
ReferenceField.
Eric Timmons