Morphia/MongoDB: how to iterate over distinct fields

I'd like to iterate over a list of distinct fields in a given document. Using the MongoDB command line, I can kind of get what I want by doing something like:

db.MyDoc.distinct("someField")

... except that it returns all the results as a giant BSON.

Is there a way to do this in Morphia, and to furthermore return it as an Iterable, so that all the results are not read into memory all at once?

I imagine that distinct() is implemented as some kind 开发者_如何学编程of in-memory hashmap, which probably means that there's no point in my trying to iterate over the results piecemeal to avoid having them all in memory at once.

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Even when this is supported by morphia the result of distinct is still a single (bson) document, with an array of distinct values for the result field. It will have to be read completely into memory, basically.

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this is not supported in morphia currently. There is a feature request http://code.google.com/p/morphia/issues/detail?id=219&colspec=ID%20Type%20Stars%20Status%20Priority%20Milestone%20Owner%20Summary you can watch.