Insert

Perform an insert.

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For detailed documentation that includes this code sample, see the following:

• Entities, Properties, and Keys

Code sample

C#

To learn how to install and use the client library for Datastore mode, see Datastore mode client libraries. For more information, see the Datastore mode C# API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Datastore mode, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

Entity task = new Entity()
{
    Key = _keyFactory.CreateIncompleteKey()
};
task.Key = _db.Insert(task);

Go

To learn how to install and use the client library for Datastore mode, see Datastore mode client libraries. For more information, see the Datastore mode Go API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Datastore mode, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

taskKey := datastore.NameKey("Task", "sampleTask", nil)
_, err := client.RunInTransaction(ctx, func(tx *datastore.Transaction) error {
	// We first check that there is no entity stored with the given key.
	var empty Task
	if err := tx.Get(taskKey, &empty); err != datastore.ErrNoSuchEntity {
		return err
	}
	// If there was no matching entity, store it now.
	_, err := tx.Put(taskKey, &task)
	return err
})

Java

To learn how to install and use the client library for Datastore mode, see Datastore mode client libraries. For more information, see the Datastore mode Java API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Datastore mode, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

Key taskKey = datastore.add(FullEntity.newBuilder(keyFactory.newKey()).build()).getKey();

Node.js

To learn how to install and use the client library for Datastore mode, see Datastore mode client libraries. For more information, see the Datastore mode Node.js API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Datastore mode, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

const taskKey = datastore.key('Task');
const task = {
  category: 'Personal',
  done: false,
  priority: 4,
  description: 'Learn Cloud Datastore',
};

const entity = {
  key: taskKey,
  data: task,
};

datastore.insert(entity).then(() => {
  // Task inserted successfully.
});

PHP

To learn how to install and use the client library for Datastore mode, see Datastore mode client libraries. For more information, see the Datastore mode PHP API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Datastore mode, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

$task = $datastore->entity('Task', [
    'category' => 'Personal',
    'done' => false,
    'priority' => 4,
    'description' => 'Learn Cloud Datastore'
]);
$datastore->insert($task);

Python

To learn how to install and use the client library for Datastore mode, see Datastore mode client libraries. For more information, see the Datastore mode Python API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Datastore mode, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

from google.cloud import datastore

# For help authenticating your client, visit
# https://cloud.google.com/docs/authentication/getting-started
client = datastore.Client()

with client.transaction():
    incomplete_key = client.key("Task")

    task = datastore.Entity(key=incomplete_key)

    task.update(
        {
            "category": "Personal",
            "done": False,
            "priority": 4,
            "description": "Learn Cloud Datastore",
        }
    )

    client.put(task)

Ruby

To learn how to install and use the client library for Datastore mode, see Datastore mode client libraries. For more information, see the Datastore mode Ruby API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Datastore mode, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

datastore.transaction do |_tx|
  task = datastore.entity "Task" do |t|
    t["category"] = "Personal"
    t["done"] = false
    t["priority"] = 4
    t["description"] = "Learn Cloud Datastore"
  end
  datastore.save task
end

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