For a prefix search, use the same technique but written in Java.

There is currently no full-text search.
http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=217


Robert







On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 09:50, Vibhuti Gupta <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks for the prompt replies. Is there any way direct or indirect to match
> part of a string using java...
> Regards
>
> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Sahid Orentino Ferdjaoui
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> see at this url:
>>
>> http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/datastore/queriesandindexes.html
>>
>>
>> > Tip: Query filters do not have an explicit way to match just part of a
>> > string value, but you can fake a prefix match using inequality filters:
>> >
>> > db.GqlQuery("SELECT * FROM MyModel WHERE prop >= :1 AND prop < :2",
>> > "abc", u"abc" + u"\ufffd")
>> >
>> > This matches every MyModel entity with a string property prop that
>> > begins with the characters abc. The unicode string u"\ufffd" represents the
>> > largest possible Unicode character. When the > property values are sorted 
>> > in
>> > an index, the values that fall in this range are all of the values that
>> > begin with the given prefix.
>>
>> --
>>   .
>>  ..:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Vibhuti Gupta <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > Hello
>> > Anyone has any idea about some alternative to 'like' clause. I need to
>> > write
>> > a query where I need to select users having a particular string in their
>> > username.
>> > Thanks
>> >
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