Actually, I take that back; this won't work because I need to be able to work in the reverse direction as well. For entity from modelWithKeyName, display number ID in links....
I'll post a follow up once I figure this out so others can reference it in the future. On Sep 29, 9:26 am, Larkin2 <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for your input, what I might do then is create a separate model > with numeric ids and reference properties to entities with key names. > > Pseudo code being: > > class modelWithKeyNames(): > content = string > > class modelWithNumberIDReferences(): > contentReference = reference(modelWithKeyNames) > > On Sep 29, 2:44 am, Robin B <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Not directly, but you could store the entity with your keyname and an > > integer property containing an id. The id could be from another > > entity that has an id, or from your own generated sequential ids. > > Another thing to look at, this id preallocation function might be > > useful to you: > > http://billkatz.com/2009/9/Pre-allocating-IDs-for-App-Engine-datastore > > > Robin > > > On Sep 28, 9:27 pm, Larkin2 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Is there a way to have both the automatically assigned numeric id key > > > and a name key for db entities? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" 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?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
