Mapping of id to _id in nested or embedded documents is breaking for many and should come with the ability to disable globally

[benmartin88]

• Laravel-mongodb Version: ^5.1.1
• PHP Version: 8.2.27
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Description: Since the change was introduced to cast id to _id in nested and embedded documents, any platforms that were using an id field anywhere in a nested / embedded document will find much of their model logic impacted negatively. As Laravel didn't support (or not very well) the standard concept for creating models for nested docs as you would with SQL and tables / relations, it would be fairly normal to have a field in any of the documents as id.

Steps to reproduce

1. Save any model that has a nested document with a field named id and you will find it saved as _id

Expected behaviour

Whilst I understand this is now expected behaviour based on the update introduced, it should be something that can be disabled globally. The work required to cast this on a per model basis with deeply nested objects is quite large, and should not be an acceptable solution.

Actual behaviour

As above

A global override should be added to allow people to take advantage of the updates without such large breaking changes.

[bisht2050]

This is a duplicate of #3184

This feature is available in v5.3.0
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