According to the documentation on http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/datastore/creatinggettinganddeletingdata.html#Keys it should be possible to retrieve an entity using a different key type than the key field in the class.
Assuming the following entity having a key (encoded string) and a keyId like @PrimaryKey @Persistent(valueStrategy = IdGeneratorStrategy.IDENTITY) @Extension(vendorName="datanucleus", key="gae.encoded-pk", value="true") private String encodedKey; @Persistent @Extension(vendorName="datanucleus", key="gae.pk-id", value="true") private Long keyId; it should be possible to retrieve the entity by both pm.getObjectById(myEntity.class, encodedKey); and pm.getObjectById(myEntity.class, keyId); do I understand that correctly? - (since it does not work out for my code) thanks, andr -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine for Java" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine-j...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine-java+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en.