You can handle your query if you add another field in your Kind, a ListProperty containing both the start date and end date.
Try this: class FicaTable(db.Model): """ a table of salary amounts subject to Social Security tax, by tax year """ eff_date = db.DateTimeProperty() exp_date = db.DateTimeProperty() date_range = db.ListProperty(datetime.datetime) max_tax_base = db.IntegerProperty() OASDI_RATES = """\ 2001 80400 2002 84900 2003 87000 2004 87000 2005 90000 2006 94200 2007 97500 2008 102000 2009 106800 """ def flush_tax_tables(): """ flush any leftover data from previous runs """ query_all_records = FicaTable.all() rec_count = query_all_records.count() if rec_count: print 'Deleting %d records from datastore' % (rec_count) for rec in query_all_records: rec.delete() def parse_date(yyyy_mm_dd): return datetime.datetime(*time.strptime(yyyy_mm_dd, "%Y-%m-%d") [0:3]) def load_tax_tables(): for table_data in OASDI_RATES.splitlines(): (year, max_tax_base) = table_data.split() eff_date = parse_date(year + '-01-01') exp_date = parse_date(year + '-12-31') table_vals = {'eff_date' : eff_date, 'exp_date' : exp_date, 'date_range': [eff_date, exp_date], 'max_tax_base': int(max_tax_base) } table_rec = FicaTable(**table_vals) table_rec.save() query_all_records = FicaTable.all() rec_count = query_all_records.count() print 'Loaded %d tax table records' % (rec_count) from google.appengine.api.datastore_errors import BadFilterError def query_tax_tables(): """ this fails with the message: "invalid filter: Only one property per query may have inequality filters ..." """ query_template = "WHERE eff_date >= :1 AND exp_date <= :1" q = FicaTable.gql(query_template, datetime.date(2005,05,15)) print print "Trying 'traditional' query with two date fields" try: rec = q.fetch(1) except BadFilterError: print "I told you this wouldn't work" """ but this works: """ print print "Trying query against date_range" query_template = "WHERE date_range >= :1 AND date_range <= :1" query_date = datetime.date(2005,05,15) q = FicaTable.gql(query_template, query_date) table_rec = q.get() date_str = query_date.isoformat() # datetime.time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d", query_date) print 'The maximum amount subject to FICA OASD for %s is %d' % \ (date_str, table_rec.max_tax_base) if __name__ == "__main__": flush_tax_tables() load_tax_tables() query_tax_tables() Let me know if anyone has any problems understanding or running the example. After I'm sure it's accurate and well-enough documented, I should post it to the App Engine 'cookbook': http://appengine-cookbook.appspot.com/ Garrett Davis On Dec 23, 2:23 pm, maverick <zhihong....@gmail.com> wrote: > Due to the limitation of GAE's datastore "Inequality Filters Are > Allowed On One Property Only", a simple date range overlapping query > become a problem. > > I have a Kind which contains 2 properties: date_begin, date_end, I > need to run a query to find out all rows which overlapping the date > range given (datebegin2, dateend2). in a SQL query it just simple > "@StartDate1 <= @EndDate2 AND @StartDate1 <= @EndDate1 " in WHERE > clause, however in GQL, we have a problem. > > Does anyone have a solution for this? Thanks ! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---