I don't think that'll help. :( I'm trying to ensure uniqueness... so if two people try to add the same URL, there will only be one entry in the datastore. I don't think there's any guarantee that tinyurl/etc would provide that uniqueness constraint.
Also, there will be a pretty decent volume of lookups going on, and routing every request through tinyurl won't win me any friends :) On Oct 2, 10:34 am, Gmail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe,You Can try to short the URI by some service like this one; > > > Short URL is a Wordpress plugin that allows you to take a long URL > > such as: > > >http://www.harleyquine.com/downloads/php-scripts/somefile.zip > > > and turn it into: > >http://www.harleyquine.com/u/1 > > there are lots of this kind of services. > > 在 2008-10-2，下午11:55， Tony Arkles 写道： > > > > > Hi everyone, > > > I'm running into a bit of a snag, and I'm hoping that someone might be > > able to offer some suggestions. > > > I've got a Kind that is keeping track of information about URLs > > (ratings, summary, etc). At first glance, it seems natural to key > > Entities based on the full URL -- this will ensure that there is only > > ever one entry for each URL. get_or_insert() works awesome for this. > > > This design was working great until yesterday, when I hit a URL that > > was longer than 500 characters (egads!). > > > Now I don't know what to do! I want to ensure uniqueness on a per-URL > > basis, but it doesn't look like I can use it as a key anymore. Since > > you can't do queries within transactions, I'm at a loss for how to do > > this... > > > Any thoughts? > > > Cheers > > Tony > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
