Awesome, we are using Objectify! Many thanks, Jeff! You are a great asset to this list.
On Apr 12, 8:09 pm, Jeff Schnitzer <j...@infohazard.org> wrote: > Nulls are perfectly reasonable things to index. Sometimes nulls are > what you want to query for. > > What you want is called a 'partial index'. The facility to do partial > indexes exists in GAE, but how to do it depends on your data access > layer. Are you python (db or ndb?) or java (jdo/jpa, objectify, > low-level?). > > In Objectify-land it looks something like this: > > @Index(IfNotNull.class) String name; > > You can get effectively the same effect by flagging certain values as > not saved. But there are so many apis and so many ways to do this > that I wouldn't want to try to list them all here. > > Jeff > > On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 7:56 PM, David Hardwick > > > > > > > > <david.hardw...@bettercloud.com> wrote: > > And how are you? > > > I see records in our custom index for what I know is a null value. Meaning, > > we index a string field on the model and it needs to be a custom index. > > > However, this field is not required to be filled out by the user, and 9 > > times out of 10 this field is not filled out by a user...but based on the > > index statistics, I can see that we have an index record regardless if that > > value is filled in or if it is null. Why write to the index for a null > > value? > > > Is this expected behavior and we have to take a custom index approach to not > > get charged index writes for null values? Or is this a known issues that > > will be addressed at some point? > > > Rock on, > > -Hardwick > > > -- > > Check out these BetterCloud Products: SherpaTools - DomainWatch - Archive > > Migrator - Google Gooru > > > David Hardwick > > CTO, > > BetterCloud > > Mobile: 703-338-0741 > > 86 Chambers St. Suite 704 > > New York, NY 10007 > > tungle.me/davidhardwick (calender availability) > > > -- > > 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.
