Hi Rusty,

This is something we've planned to support all along, we just haven't gotten
around to it yet.  There's an issue filed for it here:
http://code.google.com/p/datanucleus-appengine/issues/detail?id=86

(already quite a few stars)

There are 2 things that make this work complicated.  The first is explained
in the above issue (no way to resolve unowned relationships inside a txn due
to multiple entity groups).  The second is that we need to start storing the
Keys of the referenced objects in a list property on the parent.  This is
optional for owned relationships because we can use an ancestor query to
find children (this is what we do now), but required for unowned
relationships because there's no other way to store the relationship.  This
is one of the things I've been working on the last few weeks, and once this
work is done it unlocks a ton of good stuff, including unowned
relationships.

Max

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 11:50 PM, Rusty Wright <[email protected]>wrote:

> If I understand things correctly, it seems to me that a class would have a
> field
>
>  @Persistent(defaultFetchGroup = "true")
>  List<Key> myClassKeys; // keys are from MyClass objects
>
> instead of
>
>  @Persistent(defaultFetchGroup = "true")
>  List<MyClass> list;
>
> because in the latter case, when an object is added to the List, it's
> parented to the enclosing object.  In the case of the List of Key, no
> parenting happens so you can add keys for objects that are already parented
> or at the root level.
>
> Why can't you create an annotation parameter or new annotation so that we
> can use the latter form, and the annotation specifies that the objects'
> parenting remains unchanged?  So under the hood it behaves like the former
> List of Key, but it provides a cleaner interface like the latter.
>
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