Thanks for the suggestion of reworking the models, but I'd really like
the way to do it given my models. I changed the names of the entities
and properties so as not to give away what I'm trying to do.

On Feb 10, 12:45 am, Bill <[email protected]> wrote:
> I don't understand why you are modeling it that way.  Why have the
> ReferenceProperty in Location?
>
> Given your case of wanting all people with a given birthplace, it
> seems like this makes sense:
>
> class Person(db.Model):
>     name = db.StringProperty()
>     birthplace = db.ReferenceProperty(Location, default="unknown",
> collection_name='born_here')
>
> class Location(db.Model):
>     place = db.StringProperty()
>
> Since a person is likely only born in one place, you put the reference
> with the Person.
> Now you can do:
>   birthplace = my_person.birthplace    # gets Location
> and
>   some_location.born_here   # list of Person born here
>
> On Feb 9, 9:27 pm, adelevie <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I know the datastore is not relational but this should still be
> > simple.
>
> > I have two models:
>
> > class Person(db.Model):
> >      name = db.StringProperty()
>
> > class Location(db.Model):
> >      birthplace = db.StringProperty()
> >      name = db.ReferenceProperty()
>
> > So I want to be able to select all People given a birthplace. I tried
> > messing with keys, but to no avail.
>
> > thanks,
> > Alan
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