Thanks!

Unless I'm misreading the documentation for SEQUENCE, that breaks the
contract of the JDP annotation API, doesn't it?

Is there a way to annotate a field as a true sequence, or do I need to
create my own sequence and assign the value myself?

On Dec 21, 9:29 am, "Max Ross (Google)" <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hi Philip,
>
> IdGeneratorStrategy.SEQUENCE support is implemented on top of
> DatastoreService.allocateIds(), which is itself the mechanism that the
> datastore uses internally to assign ids.  So, all properties of datastore id
> allocation apply to SEQUENCE.  There is a lot of good information about
> these properties in this 
> thread:http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine/browse_thread/thread/...
>
> But in short, sequences are guaranteed to be unique but not monotically
> increasing.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Max
>
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 12:04 AM, Philip Tucker <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I'm using IdGeneratorStrategy.SEQUENCE for the primary key of a table,
> > but it appears AppEngine bounces between 2 different sequence
> > generators as I create new entries. IDs are unique, but not
> > monotonically increasing. It's possible I've coded something wrong,
> > but I'm oretty sure this is a bug.
>
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