Maybe. I don't use PolyModel. Mostly because I think people go a little too
overboard with OO.

Ikai Lan
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On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 7:10 PM, Ross M Karchner <[email protected]>wrote:

> Ikai, isn't this about what Polymodel does?
>
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 3:44 AM, Ikai Lan (Google) <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Better implementation: define a Person model and a fields Text type where
>> you store additional data as a JSON object. Store a "type" attribute. Then
>> wrap the Person class with Teacher for all types that have the "Teacher"
>> attribute.
>>
>> Ikai Lan
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>> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Bruce Aloe <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I want to define two kinds (tables): Person (PersonId, age, name) and
>>> Teacher (PersonId, age, name, teaching experience) in my GAE datastore
>>> and Person is the superclass of Teacher. I want to define inheritance
>>> relationship between Person and Teacher, so Teacher kind inherites
>>> PersonId, age, name columns (attributes) from Person kind.
>>>
>>> Is there any way to define it in python environment from GAE?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Bruce
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