Thanks for the suggestions. Let's carry on this discussion in the bug please :)
On Saturday, September 29, 2012 3:52:19 PM UTC-7, John Thomas wrote: > > Hi Daniel, > > Why not allow the user to configure the number of columns to display and > use your default number as a starting point. Better yet, it would be great > if you offered true CRUD functionality within the tool, at a minimum update > would be most helpful. > You can already do this in Datastore Viewer: just click on the link in the first cell of any row. > You could show your specified columns and if the user wants to take a more > detailed view of the information, allow them to click into the individual > row. Then you could scroll the columns down and remove the worry about > someone blowing up the browser. > > Thanks, > > John > > On Wednesday, September 26, 2012 5:14:36 PM UTC-4, Daniel Wong wrote: >> >> Hey ya'll, >> >> I'm the engineer who implemented this feature. Some background >> information that might explain why we did this: Some people have entities >> with huge numbers of columns. Trying to display the table for those would >> hurt their browsers. Here's the original bug: >> http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=937 >> >> One way we could address this would be to raise the limit. Obviously, my >> original guess at what a "reasonable" number would be was wrong :P. >> Therefore, I'd like to get a better idea of how ya'll are using Datastore >> viewer, so that we can figure out a more appropriate solution. Would >> raising the limit work for you? Roughly how many columns would you like to >> be able to see? >> >> I also figured that if you really wanted to see that many columns >> columns, then you'd just look at individual entities (by clicking the link >> the first column). Clearly, that doesn't work for you. Is this mainly >> because you can't ad hoc projection queries? >> >> Anyway, let's carry on the discussion in the issue report. I just wanted >> to send this out, in case people aren't subscribed to that already. >> >> Daniel >> >> On Wednesday, September 26, 2012 9:28:33 AM UTC-7, Guy Armitage wrote: >>> >>> I fell you pain Jason. >>> >>> +1 big time, at least let us expand the columns if we need to (at worst!) >>> >>> On Wednesday, September 19, 2012 8:21:51 PM UTC+1, Jason Collins wrote: >>>> >>>> Entities with large number of attributes now do not show all attributes >>>> in the Datastore Viewer (unless you drill in), leaving only a "Properties >>>> Elided" column. I'm guessing that I can see particular columns by issuing >>>> a >>>> projection query, but this assumes that I have an appropriate index in >>>> place beforehand. >>>> >>>> This has pretty severe impact to the usefulness of the Datastore Viewer >>>> as a general-purpose operations tool. >>>> >>>> Any particular reason this was done? Any possibility of reverting it? >>>> >>>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/-/D3hCHqODem4J. 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.
