Thanks Nick. If I go down the path of building ID-based URLs in the manner you suggest, will I likely have substantially shorter URLs than I would with str(node.key())?
Thanks, Jeff On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 4:44 AM, Nick Johnson (Google)<nick.john...@google.com> wrote: > Hi Jeff, > > You're correct that the only way to access a datastore entity is to provide > the full path to it - the key is the entity's primary (and only) key. If you > know the entity type of each entity in the heirarchy, though, you can > extract the id of the entity in question and all its parents, and represent > the ID as a delimiter-separated list of IDs, though - 1/2/3/4 - and > regenerate the key yourself. > > -Nick Johnson > > On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Jeff Enderwick <jeff.enderw...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> I have possibly deep entity groups (think tree structure), but I want >> a URL where the user can go to a specific node, like: >> >> http://viewnode/<node-id>. >> >> I'd like to use db.get() to directly access the node rather than query >> based on node-id. >> >> If I build the URL based on str(node.key()), then the strings can get >> very big. Key.from_path() seems to want the entire path from the >> parent. Is it really the case that the only way to get direct access >> to an interior node in an entity group is provide the entire path to >> that node? >> >> Thanks, Jeff >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
