Hi Franceso,

Entity keys use URLsafe base64 encoding, which uses - and _ in place of +
and /.

-Nick Johnson

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Francesco Donadon <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hello.
>
> I am developing an application using django, and I need a regexp to
> match the stringified keys in an URL, so that I can use urls like "/
> view/<key>".
>
> I started off using letters and digits, but then I realised searching
> in this group that the key in its string format is
> actually a base64 encoding of something.
>
> I saw that one of the two symbols used by the google implementation of
> base64 is the hyphen (-), but I have not been able to experimentally
> find the other symbol (there must be another one), nor find an answer
> searching.
>
> For now I am capturing all the other symbols that I've read on
> wikipedia, that is plus (+), underscore (_) and dot(.).
> I assume that the slash is out of discussion, as Google recommends
> using keys in URLs.
>
> So my question is, as I am a perfectionist :-), which is the other
> symbol that may appear in the keys beside the hyphen?
>
> Thank you very much for your replies, and for the marvellous job in
> creating AppEngine.
>
> Best Regards,
> Francesco Donadon
>
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