I am trying translate this Python code to Java from the presentation
Building Scalable, Complex Apps on App Engine,
Is there support on GAEJ to do this?
indexes = db.GqlQuery( "SELECT __key__ FROM MessageIndex " "WHERE receivers = :1", me)
keys = [k.parent() for k in indexes]
messages = db.get(keys)
Below my implementation in Java. Are these functional and performance wise equivalent? What happens if i have large number of keys?
Query query1 = new Query("MessageIndex");
query1.setKeysOnly();
query1.addFilter("receivers", FilterOperator.EQUAL, me);
PreparedQuery pq2 = datastore.prepare(query1);
Iterable<Entity> entities = pq2.asIterable();
HashSet<Key> keys = new HashSet<Key>();
for (Entity en : entities)
keys.add(en.getParent());
Query query2 = new Query("Messages");
query2.addFilter("__key__", FilterOperator.IN, keys);
Look atthe DatastoreService API https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/java/javadoc/com/google/appengine/api/datastore/DatastoreService
DatastoreService.get(keys) is much more efficient than a query with the keys.