Another question, is there any way to "peak" into the corrupted entity? I know the ids from a query but I would like to have the data before I delete it.
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 9:30 PM, pjesi <vidarsv...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > It seems that it is not possible to associate an entity to a User > instance if the user authenticated with OpenID and did not provide an > email. > > From the docs, it seems to be possible to create a User instance > without an email using federated_identity: > > users.User(federated_identity="http://example.com/id/ajohnson";) > http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/users/userobjects.html > > So basically I can log in using OpenID, put something in the datastore > that references the user from users.get_current_user(), and be left > with a broken instance. > > This is discussed in an old thread here: > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine/browse_thread/thread/3cd765b4b3644161/fa0a3abc376a870e?#fa0a3abc376a870e > > It was suggested that if the user object does not contain an email, > one should ask the user from that. But can the email provided by user > input be used to associate him with the current user object? > > I haven't found any documentation on how to fix this. Can I set the > email address to the user object and will that help me to lookup any > entities that the user created? > > Example: > 1. User logged in using his blogger.com OpenID, no email was provided. > The app created a Profile instance that references that apparently > broken User instance. > > 2.User visits a restricted page that looks up his Profile with using > the current_user object, the query finds the Profile entity but fails > to create an object because of UserNotFoundError exception. > > Can the app catch this, ask the user for email, and fix the entity? If > so, how? > > To prevent this happening in the future, can the app ask the user to > provide email before creating the Profile object in the first place > and somehow set the email so that the Profile instance will not raise > an exception in the future? > > Thanks, > Viðar > > > -- 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.
