Hey ya'll, I'm the engineer who implemented this feature. Some background information that might explain why we did this: Some people have entities with huge numbers of columns. Trying to display the table for those would hurt their browsers. Here's the original bug: http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=937
One way we could address this would be to raise the limit. Obviously, my original guess at what a "reasonable" number would be was wrong :P. Therefore, I'd like to get a better idea of how ya'll are using Datastore viewer, so that we can figure out a more appropriate solution. Would raising the limit work for you? Roughly how many columns would you like to be able to see? I also figured that if you really wanted to see that many columns columns, then you'd just look at individual entities (by clicking the link the first column). Clearly, that doesn't work for you. Is this mainly because you can't ad hoc projection queries? Anyway, let's carry on the discussion in the issue report. I just wanted to send this out, in case people aren't subscribed to that already. Daniel On Wednesday, September 26, 2012 9:28:33 AM UTC-7, Guy Armitage wrote: > > I fell you pain Jason. > > +1 big time, at least let us expand the columns if we need to (at worst!) > > On Wednesday, September 19, 2012 8:21:51 PM UTC+1, Jason Collins wrote: >> >> Entities with large number of attributes now do not show all attributes >> in the Datastore Viewer (unless you drill in), leaving only a "Properties >> Elided" column. I'm guessing that I can see particular columns by issuing a >> projection query, but this assumes that I have an appropriate index in >> place beforehand. >> >> This has pretty severe impact to the usefulness of the Datastore Viewer >> as a general-purpose operations tool. >> >> Any particular reason this was done? Any possibility of reverting it? >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/-/8cPgpq7wptoJ. 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.
