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Kyle
Kyle

Reputation: 22045

How can I implement a user name availability check on the google app engine?

When someone signs up for my website they must sign up with a unique user name. My current pseudocode for this is:

if(datastore.nameIsAvailable(name)){
    datastore.createUser(name);
}

How do I make sure that in between the time when nameIsAvailable returns true, and the createUser is finished, another instance of my app doesn't create a user with the same name?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 323

Answers (1)

Jason Hall
Jason Hall

Reputation: 20920

You could do a query for the name:

appuser = AppUser.all().filter('name =', name).get()
if appuser:
  # user already has this name
else:
  # it's all yours!

...or better yet have the user's name be the key_name for your AppUser:

appuser = AppUser.get_by_key(name)
if appuser:
  # user already has this name
else:
  # it's all yours!

...and even better:

appuser = AppUser.get_or_insert(name)
# appuser is now either the existing user with this name,
# or a new user with this name!

Having your name be the entity's key_name means that it will always and forever be unique, and looking up a user by their name will be as fast as possible.

(This is presuming you're using Python, if not, I can add a Java example, but the idea is the same)

Upvotes: 2

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