How to ignore extra fields for schema validation in Mongoengine?

Some records currently have extra fields that are not included in my model schema (by error, but I want to handle these cases). When I try to query the DB and transform the records into the schema, I get the following error:

FieldDoesNotExist
The field 'X' does not exist on the document 'Y'

For ignoring this error when having extra fields while getting data, set strict to False in your meta dictionary.

class User(Document):
    email = StringField(required=True, unique=True)
    password = StringField()
    meta = {'strict': False}

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