Brian, what's your app ID? Can you also post the rest of your indexes.yaml file? There have been some issues with properties with special characters, but this shouldn't cause the error you've been seeing.
-- Ikai Lan Developer Programs Engineer, Google App Engine Blogger: http://googleappengine.blogspot.com Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/appengine Twitter: http://twitter.com/app_engine On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Brian Olson <[email protected]> wrote: > Why does adding this to my index.yaml fail to build an index? > > - kind: FooBar > ancestor: yes > properties: > - name: __key__ > direction: desc > > That should be a simple enough index, yes? What's the problem? > Banging my head against this problem for the last few hours has really > soured me on the whole Index Error problem. It is opaque. The > appengine.google.com console just says "Error" with no note about what > went wrong. I did the `update_indexes; vacuum_indexes; update_indexes` dance > just to wind up with the same opaque error message and no index and queries > that fail. This doesn't happen on dev_appserver. This doesn't happen on a > separate copy of the app at a different .appspot.com instance than our > production copy. The index is fine there. This is exactly the index > specification that the error message says I need when I do the query I want > to do, and on ${myapp}dev.appspot.com it works fine, but ${myapp}. > appspot.com is broken. > > The apparently standard article on this subject hasn't helped me either, as > I did the part about what to do if I have an Error, and I still have an > Error and no visibility into it. > > http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/datastore/queriesandindexes.html#Big_Entities_and_Exploding_Indexes > > Please please please give some visibility into this problem. > > -- > 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]<google-appengine%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > -- 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.
