Thanks Ikai,
I've been using mapreduce for a long time and have never seen properties
added to our own entities like that. I'll take a look and see what it's
being used for so I understand it better and if this side-effect is
documented anywhere since it is strange and a little disconcerting to see
unknown properties popping up on your own entities.
Thanks,
Steve

On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Ikai Lan (Google) <
[email protected] <ikai.l%[email protected]>> wrote:

> It's a property used by the Mapper API:
>
>
> http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=__scatter__+package:http://appengine-mapreduce\.googlecode\.com&origq=__scatter__&btnG=Search+Trunk<http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=__scatter__+package:http://appengine-mapreduce%5C.googlecode%5C.com&origq=__scatter__&btnG=Search+Trunk>
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> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Stephen Johnson 
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Checking my datastore statistics today I noticed that a new property
>> has magically appeared named __scatter__ of type ShortBlob. I don't
>> have any property defined with this name and it has the App Engine
>> format of __xyz__ naming so I'm assuming it's something Google has
>> introduced. However, this is a little disconcerting that it is showing
>> up in datastore statistics and no mention of this has been provided by
>> google. Also, it doesn't show up in the datastore viewere. Is anyone
>> else seeing this magic property? Should I be concerned? Anyone know
>> it's purpose?
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