Create a new entity with a long id and then store a key to it in your user Entity.
Cheers, Viðar On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 9:16 PM, mscwd01 <mscw...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > > -- 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.
