Great catch Alexander, I'll make sure that this gets added to the
documentation.

Cheers,

Jeff

On Aug 28, 3:37 am, Alexander Kojevnikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> OK, I found it. For each property, GAE (at least the SDK version of
> it) creates an underscored attribute to keep the value of the
> property. For example, if you have:
>
>     my_prop = StringProperty()
>
> GAE will create an attribute called "_my_prop".
>
> In case of the property called "entity", created attribute conflicts
> with the attribute "_entity" that is used by GAE to keep an instance
> of the datastore.Entity class.
>
> I think the documentation should be updated to reflect this. Other
> used attributes, such as "_parent", "_key_name" and "_app" are
> documented; as far as I can see "_entity" is the only one 
> missed:http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/datastore/modelclass.html#Disal...
>
> The bottom line: don't use "entity" as a property name :)
>
> On Aug 28, 4:31 pm, Alexander Kojevnikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> > I guess it's one of reserved attribute names, even though it's not
> > documented:http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/datastore/modelclass.html#Disal...
>
> > On Aug 22, 4:14 am, "David I. Murray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > if I have a ReferenceProperty named "entity" and try to do db accesses
> > > of this field, you receive an exception with the following error
> > > message:
>
> > > "Key" object does not support item assignment
>
> > > If I change "entity" to any other name (and change nothing else about
> > > my code), things suddenly work. Interesting, eh? I'd encourage you to
> > > try it out in case I'm smoking crack. But I changed nothing else about
> > > my code, any verified it wasn't a caching issue or anything like that.
>
> > > Anyone else able to repro this?
>
> > > Dave
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