The 500 character or byte limit (don't ask me which is correct) only applies to persisting String objects in the datastore.
The whole point of the Text class is to allow us to store longer String objects in the datastore! Test with a long string and you should see that this works. Beware: Text contents cannot be indexed in the datastore. On Oct 28, 9:18 am, Michael <mbo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes that works! Thank you - I did see this method, but it says it > returns a String, which I thought would be back to the less than 500 > characters > > On Oct 28, 8:52 am, Cyrille Vincey <crll...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > You should use the method Text.getValue() > > -- 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.