On Jan 30, 12:44 am, dburns <drrnb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You're right, it's not entirely clear why Model.get_by_id(ids)
> requires all entities to have the same parent, while Model.get(keys)
> doesn't have that requirement.  Presumably some implementation
> detail.


An entity's parent is encoded in it's key. The parent can be any other
entity, of whatever type.

When you call Model.get_by_ids() it needs to construct the keys. It
know the entity type, and you pass it the id. How does it know what
arbitrary parent the entity may or may not have?

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