I think you shouldn't define a post field in comment at all. Simply
make post as parent of comment when storing data.
On Oct 2, 6:40 pm, Rafe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> There have been a number of people asking on the forums what the
> correct way to get the key of a ReferenceProperty without causing a
> whole 'get' to the datastore. This can be especially inefficient if
> you need to iterate over 100 or so values from a query, when all you
> need is, say, the string version of all of those objects keys.
>
> Let's look at an example:
>
> class Post(db.Model):
> title = db.StringProperty()
> text = db.StringProperty(multiline=True)
>
> class Comment(db.Model):
> text = db.StringProperty()
> post = db.ReferenceProperty(Post, collection_name='comments')
>
> Let's say you wanted to generate a list of URLs from all the
> comments in your system with links to the actual posts. This would be
> an inefficient way to do this:
>
> def generate_delete_urls(post):
> urls = []
> for comment in post:
> key = comment.post.key()
> urls.append('http://myapp.appspot.com/post/%s'% key)
>
> The problem is that each time you de-reference the 'post' property,
> it will cause a call to 'get' from the Datastore for information you
> don't need.
>
> Here is the correct way to get keys for all the posts:
>
> def generate_delete_urls(post):
> urls = []
> for comment in post:
> key = Comment.post.get_value_for_datastore(comment)
> urls.append('http://myapp.appspot.com/post/%s'% key)
>
> Right now, some folks may be using the protected variables that get
> stored on the Model instance. This is not a good way to access
> objects as it could well change in the future. If this happens, your
> application can break!
>
> So, to make sure it's clear, let me break it down for you:
>
> reference_property = Comment.post # Gets actual
> db.ReferenceProperty object
> key = reference_property.get_value_for_datastore(instance)
>
> - Rafe Kaplan
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