Hey Carl,
  What about just making the subscription's key_name something like 
"customer.key().id_or_name()-service.key().id_or_name()".  That will prevent 
duplicating subscriptions. 


Robert



On Jul 20, 2010, at 23:42, cwaldbieser <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have 3 models:  A customer account, a service, and a model that
> represents a customer's subscription to the service.  The subscription
> is essentially:
> 
> class Subscription(db.Model):
>  customer = db.ReferenceProperty(Customer)
>  service = db.ReferenceProperty(Service)
> 
> I have a user interface that allows creating or cancelling a
> customer's subscription.  I want to be able to create a subscription
> only if an existing subscription does not already exist.  I thought
> that a transaction might be the key, but I can't do a query in
> transaction unless it is by key or an ancestor query.  So I am not
> sure what to do.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Thanks,
> Carl
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