You can allocate keys that are guaranteed to be unique using the
DatastoreService class:

http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/javadoc/com/google/appengine/api/datastore/DatastoreService.html#allocateIds(java.lang.String,
long)

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On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 9:16 AM, frank <t3devt...@googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> If I understood right I can create a Key for persisting an new entity,
> which shall live in a entity group, like this:
>
> KeyFactory.createKey(parentEntityKey, newEntity.class.getSimpleName(),
> 1l));
>
> is it possible, that appengine generates the last part (here 1L) of
> the key, beause I donĀ“t know, which keys are already in use.
>
> Tnx
> Frank
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