Google Cloud Datastore Python Samples

This directory contains samples for Google Cloud Datastore. Google Cloud Datastore is a NoSQL document database built for automatic scaling, high performance, and ease of application development.

Setup

Authentication

This sample requires you to have authentication setup. Refer to the Authentication Getting Started Guide for instructions on setting up credentials for applications.

Install Dependencies

1. Install pip and virtualenv if you do not already have them. You may want to refer to the Python Development Environment Setup Guide for Google Cloud Platform for instructions.

1. Create a virtualenv. Samples are compatible with Python 2.7 and 3.4+.

   $ virtualenv env
   $ source env/bin/activate

2. Install the dependencies needed to run the samples.

   $ pip install -r requirements.txt

Samples

Quickstart

To run this sample:

$ python quickstart.py

Tasks example app

To run this sample:

$ python tasks.py

Snippets

To run this sample:

$ python snippets.py

usage: snippets.py [-h] project_id

Demonstrates datastore API operations.

positional arguments:
  project_id  Your cloud project ID.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit

The client library

This sample uses the Google Cloud Client Library for Python. You can read the documentation for more details on API usage and use GitHub to browse the source and report issues.