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?
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