Hey Dale,
You might find the Key class' id_or_name method useful, if you're
using Python. There are some other handy methods there too.
http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/datastore/keyclass.html#Key_id_or_name
Robert
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 16:41, Dale <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks, Jeff. That's what I thought, and was really confused when the
> keys appeared to be the same. I consequently used a base64 decoder to
> decode the key and that's where I found my error.
>
> Dale
>
> On Mar 25, 10:58 pm, Jeff Schnitzer <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Just to clear up a bit of confusion you may have:
>>
>> An id (or name) is *part* of a key. It is a tautological
>> impossibility to have two keys that are identical but ids that are
>> different.
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 11:59 PM, Dale <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Ok, my bad. In the light of day the entity keys are different: The
>> > difference was one character, an i changed to a j, probably due to the
>> > ID being incremented.
>>
>> > Changing my code to use a key name so that the task does a get before
>> > the put to check if the entity already exists.
>>
>> > Dale
>>
>> > On Mar 25, 12:41 am, Dale <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> Hi
>>
>> >> I insert an entity in to the datastore using a task. The first time
>> >> the task ran it successfully put the entity, but the code crashed
>> >> after the put (I forgot to include logging.) The task re-ran 7s later,
>> >> and did the put again. This time due to a slightly different code path
>> >> after the put it didn't need to log, and task completed successfully.
>>
>> >> However, on that kind I have two entities with the exact same key,
>> >> just with different ID's. The data of the two entities is the same.
>>
>> >> I thought that it was not possible to have two keys that were the
>> >> same. Did I miss something?
>>
>> >> I am using high replication datastore. The entities do not have any
>> >> parents.
>>
>> >> Any help would be appreciated.
>>
>> >> Dale
>>
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