If you're open to alternatives besides JDO, note that Objectify will auto-convert from String to Text as needed:
http://groups.google.com/group/objectify-appengine/browse_thread/thread/48242872863621ff /dmc On Jul 1, 2:21 am, Ian Marshall <ianmarshall...@gmail.com> wrote: > You might want to try the persistent class > > com.google.appengine.api.datastore.Text > > as mentioned in > > http://code.google.com/intl/en/appengine/docs/java/datastore/dataclas... > > as this class has no specific character length limit. Of course, use > of this must still satisfy the overall datastore quotas and limits. I > use Text objects to persist string data longer than 250 or 500 > characters long. > > Enjoy, > > Ian > > On Jul 1, 4:36 am, Didier Durand <durand.did...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > why don't you use blobs > > ?http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/blobstore/overview.html > > > didier > > > On Jun 30, 6:59 pm, Developer <cyber.antagon...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi! > > > > I'm developing blog engine using JSP, servletts and JDO (thru GAE). > > > And I've got a problem. > > > > For blog-posts I've developed persistance class Posts with some fields > > > and with main String-field "text" for content of post. The problem is > > > the max lenght of this field: I can't add blog-posts larger then max > > > size of String. And of cource I cant add them then in datastore. > > > > Does anybody have any ideas how to fix it? Because if I don't solve > > > this problem, I would get kind of micro-blog (like Twitter). And I > > > want a normal blog enstead :) > > > > Thank you. -- 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.