Hey guys, I wanted to use a JDO persistence-backed Sequence to provide monotonically increasing visitor #'s in my webapp. A static variable doesn't cut it because I want the number to survive redeployments, upgrades, etc.
I didn't see any info on Sequence in the wiki "Using JDO" section so I did this. It works but it seemed kinda hacky. Is this the best way to configure a JDO-backed Sequence in AppEngine? (FWIW I'm using the eclipse plug-in.) (1) Make the following file: MyProject/META-INF/package.jdo * This directory should already contain a "jdoconfig.xml". * Both files will be autoplaced into MyProject/war/WEB-INF/classes/ META-INF on deploy. (2) Paste the following XML into package.jdo: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <jdo xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/jdo/jdo" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/jdo/jdo http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/jdo/jdo_2_2.xsd"> <!-- name the package whatever you want --> <package name="MyProject"> <sequence name="VisitorSequence" datastore- sequence="VISITOR_SEQUENCE" strategy="contiguous" /> </package> </jdo> (3) When you need the next value in your application, call: PersistenceManager pm = //...allocate pm //the sequence name is <package name>.<sequence name> //from the corresponding tags in package.jdo Sequence seq = pm.getSequence("MyProject.VisitorSequence"); //If "strategy" from package.jdo was "contiguous", this has to happen //in a transaction. long nextValue = seq.nextValue(); --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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-java@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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---