Yep, entities are schemaless. This is both powerful and a bit of a mismatch to Java's type system. We've all become very used to thinking in terms of types. A little too much sometimes, in my opinion.
Objectify's documentation is really amazing. I've been considering pulling a Bing and copy-pasting his intro into our official docs. -- Ikai Lan Developer Programs Engineer, Google App Engine Blogger: http://googleappengine.blogspot.com Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/appengine Twitter: http://twitter.com/app_engine On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 9:59 AM, David Sowerby <[email protected]>wrote: > Matt > > No problem - I think most of us have been there! > > On Feb 2, 3:17 am, Matt Reeves <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks David (and thanks all), that is a good intro. I think the light > bulb > > just went off in my head that there is no requirement that you define how > an > > Entity and its properties should look. Two entities can be of the same > kind > > but look completely different (which would likely be pointless to have > any > > useful queries). I was just having a hard time unlocking my brain from > the > > relational db world... all the explanation was spelled out right in front > of > > me, just took a few nights to sink in. > > > > Thanks again. > > -- > 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%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en. > > -- 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.
