Search for 'full-text search.'  You'll find a number of workarounds.

Depending on your use-case there are two common way people solve the issue:
1) break the text up into a ListProperty (ie each word is an element
in the list),
2) implement a prefix search.

Robert





On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Enrico Nanni <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thank you Jeff!
> Luckily I don't have enormous datastores, so I can manage everything in
> memmory....
> thank you very much!!!
> :D
> Enrico
>
> On 1 March 2010 18:51, Jeff Schnitzer <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Unfortunately this construct is not supported by the datastore.  I
>> believe there are some people working on opensource projects that
>> provide text indexing in AppEngine, but I do not know their status.
>> It is a nontrivial problem.
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Enrico Nanni <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi all! :)
>> > I'm new to appengine , and i'm enjoying a lot developing a simple
>> > application using Objectify-apppengine.
>> > I'd like to implement  a simple query that uses a LIKE construct
>> > (eg select * from person p where p.description like '%guy%' )
>> > do you know how this can be done?
>> > I didn't find it in the documentation...
>> > Thank you very much and best regards!!
>> > Enrico
>> >
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