google.appengine.datastore.datastore_index_xml.IndexesXmlParser

Provides logic for walking down XML tree and pulling data.

Inherits From: expected_type

Methods

Parse

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Parse(
    xml_str
)

Parses XML string and returns object representation of relevant info.

Args
xml_str The XML string.

Returns
An IndexDefinitions object containing the result of parsing the XML.

Raises
ValidationError In case of malformed XML or illegal inputs.

ProcessIndexNode

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ProcessIndexNode(
    node
)

Processes XML <datastore-index> nodes into Index objects.

The following information is parsed out:

  • kind: Specifies the kind of entities to index.
  • ancestor: True if the index supports queries that filter by ancestor-key to constraint results to a single entity group.
  • property: Represents the entity properties to index, with a name and direction attribute.

Args
node <datastore-index> XML node in datastore-indexes.xml.