Types in Python - Google Appengine

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Published on 2010-04-08T14:52:00Z Indexed on 2010/04/08 14:53 UTC
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Getting a bit peeved now;

I have a model and a class thats just storing a get request in the database; basic tracking.

class SearchRec(db.Model):
  WebSite = db.StringProperty()#required=True
  WebPage = db.StringProperty()
  CountryNM = db.StringProperty()
  PrefMailing = db.BooleanProperty()
  DateStamp = db.DateTimeProperty(auto_now_add=True)
  IP = db.StringProperty()

class AddSearch(webapp.RequestHandler):
  def get(self):
    searchRec = SearchRec()

    searchRec.WebSite = self.request.get('WEBSITE')
    searchRec.WebPage = self.request.get('WEBPAGE')
    searchRec.CountryNM = self.request.get('COUNTRY')
    searchRec.PrefMailing = bool(self.request.get('MAIL'))
    searchRec.IP = self.request.get('IP')

Bool has my biscuit; I thought that setting bool(self.reque....) would set the type of the string but no matter what I pass it it still stores it as TRUE in the database. I had the same issue with using required=True on strings for the model; the damn thing kept saying that nothing was being passed... but it had.

Ta

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