Try this:
SELECT * FROM entity where __key__ = KEY('string-key')
See the section about Keys here:
http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/datastore/gqlreference.html
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 10:28 AM, John Gardner wrote:
> This is probably obvious, but:
> I cannot for the life of me figure out how to fetch a known entity by
> key in the viewer.
>
> The GQL reference doesn't specify key syntax, since you can do a
> db.get(key) from code.
>
> I've tried:
> SELECT * FROM entity where __key__ = "string-key"
> SELECT * FROM entity where entity.__key__ = "string-key"
> SELECT * FROM entity where entity.key = "string-key"
> SELECT * FROM entity where entity = "string-key"
> and the same without quotes.
>
> This really should be easier, I think.
>
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