How to structure movies database and user choices?

Question

I would like to create movies database, where user will be able to mark movies he/she watched and liked:

class Movies(ndb.Model):
    watched = ndb.UserPrope         


        

Answer 1

I would go with two different Models, one that stores all the Movies details and one to store the UserChoices :

class Movies(ndb.Model):
    title = ndb.StringProperty(required=True)
    director = ndb.StringProperty()
    whatever = ndb.StringProperty()

class UsersChoices(ndb.Model):
    movie = ndb.KeyProperty(kind=Movies, required=True)
    watched = ndb.BooleanProperty(required=True)
    liked = ndb.BooleanProperty(required=True)
    user_id = ndb.StringProperty(required=True)

    @classmethod
    def get_liked_movies(cls, user_id):
        return cls.query(cls.user_id == user_id, cls.liked == true).fetch(10)

    @classmethod
    def get_watched_movies(cls, user_id):
        return cls.query(cls.user_id == user_id, cls.watched == true).fetch(10)

    @classmethod
    def get_by(cls, user_id, movie_key):
        return cls.query(cls.user_id == user_id, cls.movie == movie_key).get()

If you need to store informations about users you should create your UserInfo Model, keyed by user_id from the users API, with all the details Properties your application needs.

class UserInfo(ndb.Model):
        #Keyed by user_id 
        nickname = ndb.StringProperty()
        email = ndb.StringProperty()

To create a new UserInfo, you could do:

from google.appengine.api import users

user = users.get_current_user()
userinfo = UserInfo(
        id = user.user_id(),
        nickname = user.keyname(),
        email = user.email()
      )
userinfo.put()

Then, when the user is logged in, use his/her user_id to retrieve the watched/liked movies.

from google.appengine.api import users

user = users.get_current_user()
userinfo = ndb.Key(UserInfo, user.user_id()).get()
watched_movies = UsersChoices.get_watched_movies(userinfo.key.id())
liked_movies = UsersChoices.get_liked_movies(userinfo.key.id())