Using entity key to retrieve entries from datastore

Question

My Datastore contains: an entry with an id/Name id = 30001

I tried: SELECT * FROM Skill WHERE Id=30001 and a few other variations.
How can i use the entity key to retrieve entries?

Answer 1

The fastest and more convenient method to retrieve a Model by a given id is by calling the get_by_id() class method of the Model:

skill = Skill.get_by_id(30001)

Using GQL is pretty much slower and it's achieved using KEY:

SELECT * FROM Skill WHERE __key__ = KEY('Skill',30001)