Thanks for the help.  Looks like I had better do it inside my code for
now.
Steve

On Feb 26, 2:35 am, John Patterson <jdpatter...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Be careful of the start-end date query trick - it does not work.  
> There was a bug in the SDK that made it appear to work.
>
> "an entity will only match the query if it has an individual value for  
> that property that matches all of the inequality filters"
>
> http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/datastore/queriesandinde...
>
> You can store any Collection (but not array) and it will become a  
> multi valued property.  All collection types are returned as an  
> ArrayList - even sets etc.
>
> JD
>
> On 26 Feb 2010, at 13:38, Max wrote:
>
> > ListProperty is simply a collection.
>
> > You can simply persist a list of GAE primitive type into datastore
>
> > On Feb 25, 9:07 pm, Steve Pritchard <steve...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> This post is very helpful found 
> >> athttp://appengine-cookbook.appspot.com/recipe/how-to-query-by-date-range
>
> >> Often, you need to store, and retrieve, data that needs to match an
> >> "effective date period", containing a "start date" and "end date".
>
> >> ...
>
> >> You can handle your query if you add another field in your Kind, a
> >> ListProperty containing both the start date and end date. For  
> >> example,
> >> add a ListProperty named "date_list", and populate it like this:
> >> date_list = [start_date, end_date].
>
> >> My Question.
>
> >> In Java, what constitutes a ListProperty.  I assume ArrayList.  I am
> >> hoping that an int[] also counts because this has much less overhead
> >> to store.
>
> >> Does anybody know or know where the rules for ListProperty might be
> >> found.
>
> >> Thanks.
>
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