On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:56 PM, jMotta <[email protected]> wrote: > * > * > *Jeff*, > > You've said: "Objectify will let you change the field type to a String and > do the right thing out of the box.", how? > > I know that's possible through @AlsoLoad annotation to override the default > behavior of binding properties based on the member name. But what I > understood about his need is that actually he have entities whose the > property names are equals but with different object types as values. So, the > only class shared in the String vs Long hierarchy will be Object. >
The conversion process will merrily convert just about anything to a String. So going from Long -> String is easy. The other way 'round, you would need to use the @AlsoLoad mechanism. Jeff -- 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.
