GAE Datastore Put()
- by Ivan Slaughter
def post(self):
    update = self.request.get('update')
    if users.get_current_user():
        if update:
            personal = db.GqlQuery("SELECT * FROM Personal WHERE __key__ = :1", db.Key(update))
            personal.name = self.request.get('name')
            personal.gender = self.request.get('gender')
            personal.mobile_num = self.request.get('mobile_num')
            personal.birthdate = int(self.request.get('birthdate'))
            personal.birthplace = self.request.get('birthplace')
            personal.address = self.request.get('address')
            personal.geo_pos = self.request.get('geo_pos')
            personal.info = self.request.get('info')
            photo = images.resize(self.request.get('img'), 0, 80)
            personal.photo = db.Blob(photo)
            personal.put()
            self.redirect('/admin/personal')
        else:
            personal= Personal()
            personal.name = self.request.get('name')
            personal.gender = self.request.get('gender')
            personal.mobile_num = self.request.get('mobile_num')
            personal.birthdate = int(self.request.get('birthdate'))
            personal.birthplace = self.request.get('birthplace')
            personal.address = self.request.get('address')
            personal.geo_pos = self.request.get('geo_pos')
            personal.info = self.request.get('info')
            photo = images.resize(self.request.get('img'), 0, 80)
            personal.photo = db.Blob(photo)
            personal.put()
            self.redirect('/admin/personal')
    else:
        self.response.out.write('I\'m sorry, you don\'t have permission to add this LP Personal Data.')
Should this will update the existing record if the 'update' is querystring containing key datastore key. I try this but keep adding new record/entity. Please give me some sugesstion to correctly updating the record/entity.
Correction? :
def post(self):
    update = self.request.get('update')
    if users.get_current_user():
        if update:
            personal = Personal.get(db.Key(update))
            personal.name = self.request.get('name')
            personal.gender = self.request.get('gender')
            personal.mobile_num = self.request.get('mobile_num')
            personal.birthdate = int(self.request.get('birthdate'))
            personal.birthplace = self.request.get('birthplace')
            personal.address = self.request.get('address')
            personal.geo_pos = self.request.get('geo_pos')
            personal.info = self.request.get('info')
            photo = images.resize(self.request.get('img'), 0, 80)
            personal.photo = db.Blob(photo)
            personal.put()
            self.redirect('/admin/personal')
        else:
            personal= Personal()
            personal.name = self.request.get('name')
            personal.gender = self.request.get('gender')
            personal.mobile_num = self.request.get('mobile_num')
            personal.birthdate = int(self.request.get('birthdate'))
            personal.birthplace = self.request.get('birthplace')
            personal.address = self.request.get('address')
            personal.geo_pos = self.request.get('geo_pos')
            personal.info = self.request.get('info')
            photo = images.resize(self.request.get('img'), 0, 80)
            personal.photo = db.Blob(photo)
            personal.put()
            self.redirect('/admin/personal')
    else:
        self.response.out.write('I\'m sorry, you don\'t have permission to add this LP Personal Data.')