These are plaintext keys built of Kind and Id or name. These "URL Safe" keys are Base64 encoded which is why they look illegible.
> they are two different encoding schemes. Is there a way to force the datastore viewer to use the newer encoding scheme? I don't know the cause of your problem, but note this ticket. Google App Engine API and Google Cloud API have different incompable formats for URL Safe keys, and the bug has remained open for a while. https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-java/issues/1357 On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 1:16 AM 'George (Cloud Platform Support)' via Google App Engine <[email protected]> wrote: > The string representation of a key looks cryptic, but is not encrypted. If > you don't want to expose this data to your users, you may consider > encrypting these strings. > > How do your app keys look like in your app, and why do you consider these > keys encrypted? A screen capture, with personal data highlighted out, would > help in this case, as for Datastore viewer. You may refer to the "Key > Class" documentation page > <https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/python/datastore/keyclass> > for related information. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/455216df-805c-4143-a5be-a4b5ed0d8327%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/455216df-805c-4143-a5be-a4b5ed0d8327%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- *JOSHUA FOX* Director, Software Architecture | Freightos *T (Israel): *+972-545691165 | *T (US)*: +1-3123400953 Smooth shipping. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/CAD%3DB7cMyNguOoiZd5-U4smr7zU9mxta0HhbH0xx_-mfBYHkpaw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
