You could expand the list to include the prefix combinations... So ['dave','frost'], becomes ['d','da','dav','dave','f','fr','fro','fros','frost']
Then you can use '=' (and IN's) for your prefix & OR filter. But watch out for the exploding indexes, you should be ok with 3-4 words (<50 items), a few hundred entries in a StringList works ok for me.. any more and the puts() & filters get quite slow. On Jan 18, 3:40 pm, "Barry Hunter" <barrybhun...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Alex, that shows for = which does look like it will work with the stringlist. > > However Dave is trying to use prefix matching, which looks a little > messy with stringlists. Reading the documetation again it notes the > strange behaviour with ordering. This is probably related, as read > about inequality filters actully implemented with a sorted index. (and > the reason inequality filters can only work on one property) > > 2009/1/17 rabbi <alex.averb...@gmail.com>: > > > > > > > Hi Dave, > > I found this link helpful > >http://markmail.org/message/avigrrzi6ypyihvi > > > Alex > > > On Jan 17, 5:52 pm, Dave <ddev...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, > > >> This is probably (hopefully!) simple and lack of caffeine has me > >> lost. I want to do a query such as: > > >> select * from profile where (nickname >= searchname AND nickname < > >> searchname+'z') OR (fullname >= searchname AND fullname < searchname > >> +'z') > > >> my model is: > > >> class profile (db.Model): > >> nickname = db.StringProperty() > >> fullname = db.StringProperty() > > >> searchname would be something like 'dav' > > >> and the query would pick up all records such that: > > >> record 1: nickname = 'david', fullname = 'gus' > >> record 2: nickname = 'gus', fullname = 'dave' > >> record 3: nickname = 'phil', fullname = 'gus david' *** This may be > >> asking for too much. Is it? > >> .... > > >> Any help is greatly appreciated! > > >> thx, > > >> Dave > > -- > Barry > > -www.nearby.org.uk-www.geograph.org.uk- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
