[google-appengine] Re: Add StringProperty to Model without problems with the datastore?

2009-05-05 Thread Nick Johnson (Google)
Hi Ricky, If your StringProperties are either not required, or supply a default value, you can simply amend your model without trouble. Bear in mind, though, that the properties will not be present on entities that were last updated before you added them, so queries and filters involving the new

[google-appengine] Re: Add StringProperty to Model without problems with the datastore?

2009-05-05 Thread DarkCoiote
I have dealed with the same situation a couple of times, and I used the technique described at: http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/update_schema.html Reading the remote_api article I guess that the main advantage is the removal of timeout limitation (as the code actually runs on your