What about the ability to move an entity to a namespace?

On Sep 23, 10:57 pm, John Patterson <jdpatter...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 24 Sep 2010, at 02:55, Mouseclicker wrote:
>
> > API. The need to set and later reset a global setting is dangerous and
> > error-prone. Probably that's what Guillaume mentions with "The fear I
> > had was when seeing a static methods being used. I'm always afraid
> > when I see 'static' somewhere." Me too!
>
> The namespace is not global or static but stored per-thread so it must  
> be set for every request e.g. in a servlet Filter.  There is no  
> problem setting it for a single operation if it is reset in a finally  
> block.
>
> I personally like the way that the namespace API is completely  
> separated from other APIs.  In fact, I would prefer it if the memcache  
> API namespace did not override the namespace API namespace... that  
> caused a subtle bug the other day.
>
> It really is very important to be able to see all the stored data in  
> the datastore viewer without requiring the user to enter the  
> namespace.  Especially as the user could be billed for data they  
> cannot delete.

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