@DELETE public void deleteIt() { // delete an entity from the datastore // just print a message upon exception (don't throw) DatastoreService datastore = DatastoreServiceFactory.getDatastoreService(); MemcacheService syncCache = MemcacheServiceFactory.getMemcacheService(); if (syncCache.get(keyname) != null) { syncCache.delete(keyname); } Key entKey = KeyFactory.createKey("TaskData", keyname); try { Entity ent = datastore.get(entKey); datastore.delete(entKey); System.err.println("TaskData deleted in Datastore"); } catch (EntityNotFoundException e) { System.err.println("TaskData not found in Datastore"); } }