I don't think there's a better way. According to the docs, "All items in the
list value must be of the given type. item_type must be one of the datastore
value types, and cannot be list" so serializing your list seems like a
reasonable workaround.
- Jason
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 1:27 PM, dhruvg <dhruv.g...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Your solution is doable. Is it the best way? Seems "hacky"
>
> On Dec 22, 4:17 pm, Robert Kluin <robert.kl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Do you need to query sub-sections of that data? If not you may be
> > better off to serialize that to one big string (perhaps using JSON)
> > and store the string.
> >
> > If you do need to query sub-sections perhaps you could serialize each
> > pair to a string, something like 'key:value.' Then to query for a
> > particular pair:
> > MyModel().all().filter('listrpop', 'key1:val1' ).filter('listrpop',
> > 'key2:val2' )
> >
> > Robert
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 2:37 PM, dhruvg <dhruv.g...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > The data I want to store can look something like this:
> >
> > > [['a','b'],['c','d']....]
> > > the key value pairs are all strings
> > > I know i have to use db.ListProperty(...)
> >
> > > But i am unsure what to put for item_type. I cannot put list since app
> > > engine forbids that. Any ideas?
> >
> > > Thx in advance.
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