ndb query error with datetime field - Google App Engine

Question

I\'m having a problem and I don\'t find any information about.

I define a field in my model like this.

class Dates(ndb.model):
    ...
    date = ndb         


        

Answer 1

I expanded @Guido van Rossum code snippet to include <> and timedelta for calculations, mostly for my own satisfaction

import datetime
from datetime import timedelta

from google.appengine.ext.ndb import *

class D(Model):
  d = DateProperty()

now = datetime.date.today()
date1 =  now-timedelta(+500)
date2 =  now-timedelta(+5)

d1 = D(d=now)
d2 = D(d=date1)
d3 = D(d=date2)

d1.put()
d2.put()
d3.put()

date2 =  now-timedelta(+50)

result1 = D.query(D.d == now).fetch(4)
result2 = D.query(D.d > date2).fetch(2)
result3 = D.query(D.d < date2).fetch(2)

result4 = D.query(D.d >= date2, D.d <= now).fetch(2)

print result1
print "+++++++"
print result2
print "+++++++"
print result3
print "+++++++"
print result4

Answer 2

What you are trying to achieve is not really possible, because you can only query for the whole date and not for some parts of it.

In order to achieve what you are trying there I would suggest you to add few more properties to your model:

class Dates(ndb.model):
    ...
    date = ndb.DateTimeProperty(requiered=True)
    date_year = ndb.IntegerProperty()
    date_month = ndb.IntegerProperty()
    date_day = ndb.IntegerProperty()
    ...

You could update these values on every save or you could use Model Hooks to do it automagically and then your new query will become:

kl = Dates.query(ndb.AND(Dates.date_year == year,
                         Dates.date_month == month,
                         Dates.date_day == day),
                 ancestor=customer.key).fetch(keys_only=True)
dates = ndb.get_multi(kl)

Answer 3

You can use "range" queries for this. See example below.

import datetime
date = datetime.datetime.strptime('02/19/2013', '%m/%d/%Y')
kl = Dates.query(
    ndb.AND(Dates.date >= date),
            Dates.date < date + datetime.timedelta(days=1))

Will fetch all datetime's with 02/19/2013.

Answer 4

Use a DateProperty. Then you can use a simple == query:

>>> import datetime
>>> from google.appengine.ext.ndb import *

>>> class D(Model):
...   d = DateProperty()
...

>>> d = D(d=datetime.date.today())

>>> d.put()
Key('D', 9)

>>> d
D(key=Key('D', 9), d=datetime.date(2013, 2, 20))

>>> D.query(D.d == datetime.date.today()).fetch()
[D(key=Key('D', 9), d=datetime.date(2013, 2, 20))]