it looks like you have a typo.... "custom_qualifer" vs "custom_qualifier"
On Monday, February 25, 2013 6:44:14 PM UTC-8, Scott Hunter wrote:
>
> I applied the patch, and added custom_qualifiers like so:
>
> Field('f_name', type='string',custom_qualifer={'indexed':False},
> label=T('Name')),
>
>
>
> and this is the error I got:
>
> In FILE: /base/data/home/apps/s~sbhweb2py/1.365567821359373728/
> applications/ppt_demo/models/db_wizard.py
>
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File
> "/base/data/home/apps/s~sbhweb2py/1.365567821359373728/gluon/restricted.py"
> , line 212, in restricted
> exec ccode in environment
> File
> "/base/data/home/apps/s~sbhweb2py/1.365567821359373728/applications/ppt_demo/models/db_wizard.py"
> , line 165, in <module>
> label=T('Name')),
> TypeError: __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'custom_qualifer'
>
>
>
>
> On Saturday, February 23, 2013 12:30:48 PM UTC-5, howesc wrote:
>>
>> Scott,
>>
>> this is *completely* untested, but here's a proposal:
>> - use the (undocumented) field.custom_qualifier property in GAE field
>> definitions
>> - if you want a field to be unindexed set
>> custom_qualifier={'indexed':False}
>> - for "properties that don't get listed explicitly"....override those
>> default properties with what you want (there are a few techniques for not
>> explicitly listing fields, depending on which technique you are using the
>> answer here is different.
>>
>> this patch against HG trunk this AM might work (i say might cause i have
>> not tested it). are you willing to experiment with it and let us know?
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> christian
>>
>> On Friday, February 22, 2013 3:53:33 PM UTC-8, Scott Hunter wrote:
>>>
>>> If I had to guess, I'd say a patch is needed in the loop over the fields
>>> in create_table, that would add a new entry to the dict for the field
>>> definition based on a new attribute (which would be ignored for anything
>>> other than Google's Datastore) which gets added to sql_fields; then
>>> migrate_table, which seems to build the table building/altering commands
>>> would need to be made to recognize the new entry & add the disable index
>>> command. There's not a lot of comments in the code, and I'd be afraid to
>>> break something, but might give it a try.
>>>
>>> - Scott
>>>
>>> P.S. Not sure of the best way to handle this (what's describe above
>>> wouldn't handle it), but it would be nice to be able to turn off the
>>> indexes for the fields that don't get listed explicitly in models.db
>>> (things like created by & when, modified by & when).
>>>
>>> On Friday, February 22, 2013 6:14:28 PM UTC-5, howesc wrote:
>>>>
>>>> thanks for the link. i'll try and take a look this weekend and see if
>>>> there is a place for that in the DAL (feel free to open gluon/dal.py
>>>> yourself too).
>>>>
>>>> yup, i'm paying more for writes right now then i am for instance hours
>>>> per day on my largest paid application. :)
>>>>
>>>> cfh
>>>>
>>>> On Thursday, February 21, 2013 5:59:06 PM UTC-8, Scott Hunter wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> According to
>>>>> https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/datastore/indexes#Unindexed_Properties,
>>>>>
>>>>> "You declare a property unindexed by setting indexed=False in the
>>>>> property
>>>>> constructor".
>>>>>
>>>>> One incurs the cost of a write (or 2?) for every property of a record
>>>>> that gets written; so, for a table with about 25 fields (once you include
>>>>> all of the ones web2py adds), inserting 300 records incurs the cost of
>>>>> 14K+
>>>>> writes; as the free account has a limit of 50K writes per day, that is
>>>>> rather limiting. It is easy to turn such indicies back on, but you have
>>>>> to
>>>>> re-write every record in order to repopulate them.
>>>>>
>>>>> - Scott
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thursday, February 21, 2013 4:51:59 PM UTC-5, howesc wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> i'm being lazy here....do you have the instructions (or link to
>>>>>> instructions) from GAE for disabling indexes? i don't have it handy
>>>>>> right
>>>>>> now....
>>>>>>
>>>>>> we can check if the DAL has a secret way to handle it, and/or create
>>>>>> a patch to allow it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> may i ask what advantage you are hoping to achieve by skipping those
>>>>>> indexes? i've left them on for fear of making a bad choice that i can't
>>>>>> revert.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> christian
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thursday, February 21, 2013 5:56:07 AM UTC-8, Scott Hunter wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> As I understand it, the GAE datastore will automatically create an
>>>>>>> index for every field of every table (to facilitate queries using
>>>>>>> single
>>>>>>> fields); those requiring multiple fields also get generated, but will
>>>>>>> get
>>>>>>> added to index.yaml by the SDK when tested locally. Since these are
>>>>>>> created outside of the DAL, I wouldn't expect to be able to remove them
>>>>>>> using it. I also understand that there is a way, with the GAE SDK, to
>>>>>>> disable the index for any given field (by a parameter in the field
>>>>>>> definition); is there any way to accomplish this through the DAL, and
>>>>>>> if
>>>>>>> so, what is it?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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