Small Blobs silently stored as ShortBlobs - Need option to force full Blob

[unitydynamics]

Maybe there is an option but someone will have to point it out to me: how can I ensure that my Blobs are stored as full Blob objects and not ShortBlobs?

The issue for me is that I'm writing entities to the datastore using gcloud-java and then reading them with Objectify. When reading I see the error: Expected class com.google.appengine.api.datastore.Blob, got class com.google.appengine.api.datastore.ShortBlob: <ShortBlob: 247 bytes>

I'm inserting my Blobs like this:
entityBuilder.set("compressedText", BlobValue.builder(Blob.copyFrom(compressedtext)).build());
where compressedtext is a byte[]

[unitydynamics]

Also just FYI I've posed this as a potential Objectify change: objectify/objectify#284

[aozarov]

From the Google Cloud Datastore perspective there is only one type of Blob which is a Byte String.

I think Objectify need to map/handle ShortBlob in a similar way they do for Blob.
BTW, a similar concept should apply to Text and String (Google Cloud Datastore has only one
field for it, stringValue).

[unitydynamics]

Thanks I suppose I just assumed that ShortBlob was a datastore primitive (this page). Jeff has very graciously agreed to fix this in Objectify. I think we can close this out.