Bill, I admit that it was quite a core dump, but believe it or not I have done and am doing all that you said includeing using a local app server. But I am brandnew to python and did misunderstand keys and ids. That typo in the documentation was a real stumper, though. The worda kind and type are used in both technical and nontechnical ways in the manual, which threw me. Other documentation wording such as how the two parts of an and or or pair was vague to me.
The page you just referred me to (...keysandentitygroups.html) was not that helpful because it wants me to use the id as the url path, but the id is not helpful to my intended "clients" because it is a meaningless number. I want the url path to be more word-like. But discussions with folks like you helped so much. Thanks, so much. Brian On Dec 14, 6:02 am, Bill <billk...@gmail.com> wrote: > Brian, > > That's quite an info dump :) Suggestion -- work your way through the > documentation since it's pretty good and give yourself a few hours to > test out ideas on the local app server. I think you'll learn a lot by > using a Console (http://con.appspot.com/console/help/about). If you > have these kind of questions, just interactively use the console. > > I don't really have the time for a complete analysis, but I think you > may be confusing key_name with a key. > > Another page in the documentation not to be > missed:http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/datastore/keysandentitygroups.html > > It says: > "A key has several components: a path describing a parent-child > relationship between the entity and another entity, the kind of the > entity, and either a name assigned to the entity by the application or > a numeric ID assigned by the datastore." > > The key_name is just one part of a Key object. When you get a string- > encoded key, it's the mapping of the Key object data into URL-friendly > characters. > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
