Thanks Ikai! Makes sense. Will probably just use Strings then.
Appreciate all your blogposts on ikaisays.com Cheers, -Sam Edwards http://twitter.com/HandstandSam On Aug 9, 5:00 pm, "Ikai L (Google)" <[email protected]> wrote: > In the Python API, these just make it easier to serialize to XML. As of > right now, there's no added benefit of using these fields other than type > safety, but you can probably build this yourself. > > > > > > On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 8:25 AM, Sam E. <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm curious what the benefits are for using a few of the core value > > types for Java that are listed here: > > >http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/datastore/dataclasses.html... > > > The types I don't see the value in are: "Email", "PhoneNumber", > > PostalAddress, "Link", "IMHandle", "Category". > > > All of these seem to be purely Strings without any sort of > > validation. What's the benefit of using these over just "String"s? > > > Thanks, > > -Sam Edwards > > > -- > > 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 > > [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<google-appengine-java%2B > > [email protected]> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en. > > -- > Ikai Lan > Developer Programs Engineer, Google App Engine > Blog:http://googleappengine.blogspot.com > Twitter:http://twitter.com/app_engine > Reddit:http://www.reddit.com/r/appengine -- 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 [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en.
