json takes up less space, and also is a bit more portable. Some of the stuff I'm storing it could make sense to pull the json and have it read by javascript, bypassing parsing it with python altogether.
On Oct 28, 2:28 am, Andy Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why simplejson instead of pickle? > > On Oct 27, 10:26 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The JSON bit was primarily to work around the 1000 item result set > > limit. Since simplejson already exists on appengine, was just easier > > for me to use json to store those data sets that grow beyond 1000 > > entities and the convert them to dictionaries to parse. > > > On Oct 27, 10:40 am, "Paul Kinlan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > JSON might work, but it is probably overkill. I was planning on > > > maintaining > > > an inverted index like structure and do some simple set based operations > > > on > > > the data, a ListProperty would have been ideal as AFAIK the data has its > > > order maintained in the list and searching the list would have been quite > > > efficient. > > > > The 1000 item result set is quite limiting too. > > > > Paul. > > > > 2008/10/27 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > My workaround for a case like this, as suggested by another member of > > > > this group, was TextProperty with JSON encoded data. > > > > > On Oct 27, 10:25 am, "Paul Kinlan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > Thanks for the information. It is good to know. For what I need I > > > > > potentially need more than 5000 items so I will probably have to > > > > > think > > > > of > > > > > another way of doing it. > > > > > > Cheers and Thanks, > > > > > Paul > > > > > > 2008/10/27 Waldemar Kornewald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > Hi Paul, > > > > > > > On Oct 26, 9:49 pm, "Paul Kinlan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Is the limit to the number of items in a ListProperty 1000? I ask > > > > > > because > > > > > > > the limit to the number of results in a Query is 1000 and if the > > > > > > > data > > > > in > > > > > > the > > > > > > > list is stored as seperate entities in the index I am assuming > > > > > > > that > > > > this > > > > > > > means that the limit is 1000 as per the query guidelines. > > > > > > > The limit is 5000 index entries per entity. So, if you have a > > > > > > StringProperty and a ListProperty you can put 4999 items into the > > > > > > list. The problem just seems to be that put() consumes *lots* of > > > > > > mcycles if your entity needs many index entries. I don't know if > > > > > > that'll change and how much we'll get charged for it. > > > > > > > Bye, > > > > > > Waldemar Kornewald- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text - > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
