Hi Robert, First, let me thank you for your answer not just to this question, but for others I've not asked. You always provide great insights, and very well written comments. re: you post below. My suspicions confirmed about using List properties in this manner. I wish there was a good summary page of all the "performance gotchas" somewhere. There are quite a few of them -- not because GAE is necessarily bad, but due more so to its non-standard architecture. Cheers, Steve
> I favor the third approach over the second because it gives you a > bunch of flexibility. You can serialize your entities how ever you > want to; I frequently use JSON. In several instances I have found > ListProperties to have very poor performance characteristics, even > when they are not indexed. With your third technique you can wait to > deserialize the additional data, unless / until it is needed. -- 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-appeng...@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.