Yes - that's exactly what it does. You can't use get_or_insert to
update an object without a key_name, as it requires a unique
identifier as the first argument.
-Nick Johnson
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 1:52 PM, djidjadji <djidja...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Can you use get_or_insert to update an object with the given key_name?
>
> ------------------
> **kwds
> Keyword arguments to pass to the model class if an instance with the
> specified key name doesn't exist. The parent argument is required if
> the desired entity has a parent.
> ------------------
>
> 2009/5/18 Nick Johnson (Google) <nick.john...@google.com>:
>>
>> Hi Astrid,
>>
>> If your entities have key names, you can use the get_or_insert function:
>>
>> MyEnt.get_or_insert(key_name, title=title, name=name, public=True)
>>
>> -Nick Johnson
>>
>> On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 2:20 AM, astrid.thuec...@googlemail.com
>> <astrid.thuec...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> When one creates a new entity one can give all the parameters to the
>>> constructor:
>>>
>>> MyEnt(title=title, name=name, public=True, ...)
>>>
>>> But if I modify an entity already stored I need to write it in single
>>> lines:
>>> me = MyEnt.all().filter("index =", index).fetch(1)[0]
>>> me.title = title
>>> me.name=name
>>> me.public=False
>>> ...
>>>
>>> is there a shorter way to do this?
>
>
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