Entity path is a list of (kind, id or key name) tuple. Key is the encoded
string which represents an entity path. So id or key name is a part of a
key.

If you know the reference kind, you can only store the reference entity's id
or key name, and use db.Key.from_path() to build the full key. It would cost
less space to store id or key name only, and you don't need to do prefetch.

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On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 9:16 AM, rahul jain <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have model defined like this
>
> class Menu(db.Model):
>      type = db.StringProperty()  # can we do something like
> db.StringProperty(key=True)
>      desc = db.StringProperty()
>
> class Item(db.Model):
>        desc = db.StringProperty()
>        tied = db.ReferenceProperty(Menu, collection_name='item_list')
>
>
> What should be the entity key and key name for this ?
> Ideally menu type should be the key.
> Also for my datastore I have key, ID keyname (why so many)
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> --RJ
>
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