> I've taken to using a pickled python object in a text field in every model.
That's basically what App Engine does right there. It stores by an id, then the value is your object serialized as a protocol buffer.
The App Engine datastore allows you to look up by other properties than id because it indexes every field of your object in the background without you having to deal with it. You can query by pair-wise or more-wise indexes too, but you have to create those manually.
That's basically what App Engine does right there. It stores by an id, then the value is your object serialized as a protocol buffer.
The App Engine datastore allows you to look up by other properties than id because it indexes every field of your object in the background without you having to deal with it. You can query by pair-wise or more-wise indexes too, but you have to create those manually.