kinda, if the type is 'u' the whole array is interpreted as one unicode string. But it doesnt make much sense, because its just a wrapper around a blob, so you could just use a blob property to store your strings and use a special delimiter to split them...
-Andrin On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 8:09 PM, andreas schmid <a.schmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > is there a way to use this ArrayProperty to store a list of strings? > > On Aug 3, 2011, at 10:15 AM, MiuMeet Support wrote: > > You can fit up to 131'072 elements in there, afterwards you hit the 1mb > entity limit (entity overhead aside, but 100'000 are def possible). > > Put and Get performance are really fantastic, 10ms each, see the blog post. > > -Andrin > > On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 9:23 AM, andreas schmid <a.schmi...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> does this also mean that there is no 5000 objects limit on the list? >> is the get performance good as the put? >> >> thx for sharing this. >> >> On Aug 2, 2011, at 9:04 PM, Ikai Lan (Google) wrote: >> >> Thanks Andrin! >> >> If anyone is wondering why this is, it's because the List property is >> serialized and deserialized using protocol buffers. Protocol buffers are >> very useful for things like validation and cross language compatibility, but >> you can sometimes gain some performance benefits by serializing and >> deserializing using native methods. The protocol buffer implementation for >> Python is noticeably slow, even via the native extension (if you can improve >> this - Google wants to hire you), so I'm not surprised techniques like this >> work. >> >> -- >> Ikai Lan >> Developer Programs Engineer, Google App Engine >> plus.ikailan.com | twitter.com/ikai >> >> >> >> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 9:18 AM, Andrin von Rechenberg <andri...@gmail.com >> > wrote: >> >>> So you want to store a "very long list of numbers" in your AppEngine >>> Model which doesn't need to be indexed. >>> >>> Well, you could just do this: >>> >>> *class Foo(db.Model): >>> numbers = db.ListProperty(int, indexed=False) >>> * >>> However, you will quickly notice that the performance and the memory >>> consumption of this sucks if you add thousands of integers to this list. >>> >>> Instead you should use the native python "array.array" type as the list >>> and store it in a BlobProperty. It's up to 30x faster! >>> >>> I created a library that does exactly this (free, apache 2.0 license): >>> >>> http://devblog.miumeet.com/2011/08/much-more-efficient-implementation-of.html >>> >>> Once you have the library, all you need to do is this to get a huge >>> performance boost: >>> >>> *class Foo(db.Model): >>> numbers = db.ArrayProperty()* >>> >>> The blogpost also has more details and an appstat comparison. >>> >>> Cheers & hope you like it >>> -Andrin >>> >>> -- >>> 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. >>> >> >> >> -- >> 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. >> >> >> >> -- >> 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. >> > > > -- > 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. > > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
