Thanks Ikai,

But what is the difference between empty values and None when you
define a Model in GAE? Because you just define a property without a
default value and when you create an instance of that entity, the
value will be None isn't it?

On Feb 24, 1:36 pm, "Ikai L (Google)" <[email protected]> wrote:
> That *should* create an index. We index null values, but we don't index
> empty values. That is, if you have an entity:
>
> Animal {
>     String name;
>     int age;
>
> }
>
> And create 100 entities, then add:
>
> Animal {
>    String name;
>    int age;
>    String nickname;
>
> }
>
> The 100 entities that were created will have an EMPTY nickname and will not
> be queryable by this attribute, but Animals created after the change that
> populate this field will be indexable.
>
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 9:58 PM, Jairo Vasquez Moreno <
>
>
>
>
>
> [email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi Nick,
>
> > I know every write to Datastore creates an index entry for each indexable
> > value. But when a value is not set (None) will an index entry be created?
>
> > My doubt is, is it better to let a property None and then filter by
> > property=None or set the with something e.g property="-1" and then filter by
> > property="-1". Because I'm leaving a property as None and then doing some
> > stuff with those entity with None but this is generating more
> > DeadLineExcedeed errors as expected (even decreasing the number of entities
> > to fetch) so I think maybe the filter is getting to much time and I don't
> > know what else could be.
>
> > Thanks in advance.
>
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