The property name date isn't listed in the list of reserved names: http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/datastore/modelclass.html#Disallowed_Property_Names
If you wouldn't mind filing an issue I think that would be best. We'll reproduce and determine if it is a GQL issue or something that should be added to the documentation. Thank you, Jeff On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 8:58 PM, gae123 <pa...@gae123.com> wrote: > > Up to recently, in order to support pagination, for every non unique > property say 'foo' I would also have a 'foo_index'. On put() I would > set the 'foo_index' to a string value that had the same sort > properties as 'foo' but was unique. All nice and fine, this had been > described elsewhere, and does work. > Now with the introductions of __key__queries it has been pointed out > that there is a better way to do pagination and avoid the wasted > 'foo_index' space, the extra work on update and the complex code. So I > have been retiring the 'foo_index' fields. This also means that my > queries that used to be: > > 'SELECT * .... ORDER BY foo_index' > became > 'SELECT * .... ORDER BY foo' > > Well, all this worked fine until during testing I realized that a few > of the queries would return no results. Troubleshooting, led me to the > conclusion that if the property name is 'date' then queries silently > fail and return empty!!! I think I narrowed this down to the use of > 'date' as field in the query (in particular I think is 'ORDER BY date' > part). > > Now, calling a property 'date' is bad for other reasons so I renamed > my fields and worked around the problem. I am curious, is what I > report a bug or a feature (ie is date a reserved word in GQL)? > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
