When do you register classes in Objectify for GAE?

Question

So this might be kind of a dumb question but when do you register classes with:

ObjectifyService.register( User.class );

Currently, I\'m doing

Answer 1

Update

Here is the Best Practice Solution:

Use Your Own Service , This guarantees that your entities are registered before you use Objectify, but doesn't necessarily impact application startup for requests which do not access the datastore.

import com.googlecode.objectify.Objectify;
import com.googlecode.objectify.ObjectifyFactory;
import com.googlecode.objectify.ObjectifyService;


public class OfyService {
    static {
        ObjectifyService.register(User.class);
    }

    public static Objectify ofy() {
        return ObjectifyService.begin();//prior to v.4.0 use .begin() , 
                                        //since v.4.0  use ObjectifyService.ofy();
    }

    public static ObjectifyFactory factory() {
        return ObjectifyService.factory();
    }

}

Then use it like this:

public User createUser(User pUser) {

    Objectify objectify = OfyService.ofy();
    objectify.put(pUser);

    return pUser;
}

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Original Answer (better use the code above):

you should do it this way in your class, just put a static block like this:

static{
    ObjectifyService.register( User.class );
}

p.s , you take a look at the best practice of objectify too

http://code.google.com/p/objectify-appengine/wiki/BestPractices