It looks like you are modeling a One-To-Many relationship: http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/datastore/relationships.html
Set the Position as the root entity and the Application as a child entity. If an Applicant is applying to multiple Positions, then you will want to explore Many-To-Many functionality. On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Haroon <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > The one issue I’m struggling with is how to get the ‘join’ > functionality offered by Relational Databases. If I have a ‘Position’ > entity and an ‘Applicant’ entity, how can I query a list of all > ‘positions’ an applicant has applied to, and get the ‘Applicant’ name > back in the result of that one query, rather than just the applicant > ID? > > This is the problem that ‘join’ solves in and RDBMS. Can you please > suggest how I can do this using Objectify or JDO in the google > datastore? > > Thanks! > > Haroon > > -- > 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]<google-appengine%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > -- Ikai Lan Developer Programs Engineer, Google App Engine http://googleappengine.blogspot.com | http://twitter.com/app_engine -- 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.
