It would be good to have the ability to do this from within the GUI.
Other database management tools have "empty table" options, so a
"delete all of this Kind" feature would be appropriate.


On Jan 22, 12:59 pm, John Patterson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Here is the code I use to delete one kind at a time - it batches the  
> keys into Lists of 100 to avoid datastore exceptions.  Iterables is  
> from Google collections.
>
>                                         Query query = new Query(kind);
>                                         query.setKeysOnly();
>                                         DatastoreService datastore = ...
>                                         Iterable<Entity> entityIterator =  
> datastore.prepare(query).asIterable();
>                                         Iterable<Key> keyIterator = 
> Iterables.transform(entityIterator,  
> new Function<Entity, Key>()
>                                         {
>                                                 public Key apply(Entity arg0)
>                                                 {
>                                                         return arg0.getKey();
>                                                 }
>                                         });
>
>                                         Iterable<List<Key>> partitioned =  
> Iterables.partition(keyIterator, 100);
>                                         for (List<Key> sublist : partitioned)
>                                         {
>                                                 datastore.delete(sublist);
>                                         }
>
> On 22 Jan 2010, at 15:10, mete wrote:
>
>
>
> > Suppose I have a class A and I have stored some instance of it in the
> > datastore. Then I change it, but I keep the name. How I can delete all
> > the previous data in the datastore, if I simply do a query and use
> > deleteAll, it gives an error (I guess because I changed the name of
> > some fields). Thank you.
>
> > Mete
>
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