Hi,
With App Engine, there is not a great way to do partial string searches. To
do prefix matching, which seems to be your use case, you can use inequality
filters and the method described here:
http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/datastore/queriesandindexes.html
"Query filters do not have an explicit way to match just part of a string
value, but you can fake a prefix match using inequality filters:
db.GqlQuery("SELECT * FROM MyModel WHERE prop >= :1 AND prop < :2", "abc",
u"abc" + u"\ufffd")
This matches every MyModel entity with a string property prop that begins
with the characters abc. The unicode string u"\ufffd" represents the largest
possible Unicode character. When the property values are sorted in an index,
the values that fall in this range are all of the values that begin with the
given prefix."
-Marzia
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 12:59 AM, chromerunner <gau...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> A noob question. I have a series of names in the datastore. They are
> stored in this format: <surname>-<first initial>. Examples would be:
>
> Smith-J
> Python-M
> Smith-KS
> Doe-J
>
> Users will want to find names by partial matching. Thus a query string
> of 'Smith' should find both J and KS above... I just can't find a way
> of doing it, am I missing what's glaringly obvious? Any pointers
> please? Thanks
>
> >
>
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