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Asked: 2026-06-01T04:23:00+00:00

Is there an equivalent for modelname_set (a back-referenced property) in Google App Engine’s NDB

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Is there an equivalent for modelname_set (a back-referenced property) in Google App Engine’s NDB?

In the old DB a Model entity had described the back-reference property as:

The name of the back-reference property defaults to modelname_set (with the name of the model class in lowercase letters, and “_set” added to the end), and can be adjusted using the collection_name argument to the ReferenceProperty constructor.

I noticed this property does not seem to exist with NDB db.Model instances.

Does NDB have an equivalent to the back-reference property?

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  1. Editorial Team

    There is no direct back-reference properties in NDB because NDB doesn’t quite use the same paradigm as the original datastore client. You would use a KeyProperty for your forward reference and then use a query for everything that has that KeyProperty set for your back reference.

    class Comment(ndb.Model)
    source = ndb.KeyProperty()

qry = Comment.query().filter(source=ndb.Key('Source', 'Sandy'))
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