great!
The updated API is much better.
On Dec 30 2009, 6:17 pm, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
> I changed this. It was UGLY.
>
> Now you can do:
>
> from gluon.contrib.gql import gae
> db.define_table('person',Field('names',gae.StringListProperty()))
>
> and you can do:
>
> db.person.insert(names=['Massimo','Max'])
> db(db.person.names=='Massimo').select()
>
> So you can use any native google type AND you can make your own.
>
> Massimo
>
> On Dec 30, 12:50 am, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
>
>
>
> > There are many GAE types that one may want to use. Today I needed
> > StringListProperty so I extended the web2py GAE apy so that you can
> > have a field of type
>
> > db.define_table('person',Field('names','.StringListProperty()'))
>
> > and you can do
>
> > db.person.insert(names=['Massimo','Max'])
> > db(db.person.names=='Massimo').select()
>
> > Basically you can put any native type as a web2py type just put it in
> > a string and start it with a '.'. You can also pass arguments this
> > way.
>
> > It is ugly but works. It is ugly because I'd rather pass an object
> > than a string. It works because a type has to be a string. It is
> > experimental because when the new DAL comes this should be replaced by
> > a better API. This will not stay backward compatible.
>
> > Massimo
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