I have objects which represent users, the key to each object is their email address encoded as a String. Having the email address as the key works well so i'd like to keep it that way rather than having an auto incrementing Long key.
However, for reasons I wont go into here, I need a way of identifying user objects via a meaningless number rather than an personal email address. I assumed the datastore may hold a unique auto incrementing number for each object regardless of the key type used and if so I was wondering how one may access it? Thanks On Apr 8, 5:59 pm, "Ikai L (Google)" <ika...@google.com> wrote: > You could probably change the characters to integer values and concatenate > these, but you are going to get some BIG numbers. > > Better solution still is probably to use KeyFactory to generate a unique > Key. What is it you are trying to do? > > > > > > On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 2:19 AM, mscwd01 <mscw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hey, > > > As the title of this post suggests, is it possible to get a unique > > Long id from a user defined String key? > > > Thanks > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Google App Engine for Java" group. > > To post to this group, send email to > > google-appengine-j...@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > google-appengine-java+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<google-appengine-java%2B > > unsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en. > > -- > Ikai Lan > Developer Programs Engineer, Google App > Enginehttp://googleappengine.blogspot.com|http://twitter.com/app_engine -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine for Java" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine-j...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine-java+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en.
