Add task

Creates and saves an Entity of the hypothetical type "Task"

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• Getting started with the Firestore in Datastore mode API

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.

/// <summary>
///  Adds a task entity to the Datastore
/// </summary>
/// <param name="description">The task description.</param>
/// <returns>The key of the entity.</returns>
Key AddTask(string description)
{
    Entity task = new Entity()
    {
        Key = _keyFactory.CreateIncompleteKey(),
        ["description"] = new Value()
        {
            StringValue = description,
            ExcludeFromIndexes = true
        },
        ["created"] = DateTime.UtcNow,
        ["done"] = false
    };
    return _db.Insert(task);
}

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.

/**
 * Adds a task entity to the Datastore.
 *
 * @param description The task description
 * @return The {@link Key} of the entity
 * @throws DatastoreException if the ID allocation or put fails
 */
Key addTask(String description) {
  Key key = datastore.allocateId(keyFactory.newKey());
  Entity task =
      Entity.newBuilder(key)
          .set(
              "description",
              StringValue.newBuilder(description).setExcludeFromIndexes(true).build())
          .set("created", Timestamp.now())
          .set("done", false)
          .build();
  datastore.put(task);
  return key;
}

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.

async function addTask(description) {
  const taskKey = datastore.key('Task');
  const entity = {
    key: taskKey,
    data: [
      {
        name: 'created',
        value: new Date().toJSON(),
      },
      {
        name: 'description',
        value: description,
        excludeFromIndexes: true,
      },
      {
        name: 'done',
        value: false,
      },
    ],
  };

  try {
    await datastore.save(entity);
    console.log(`Task ${taskKey.id} created successfully.`);
  } catch (err) {
    console.error('ERROR:', err);
  }
}

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.

use Google\Cloud\Datastore\DatastoreClient;

/**
 * Create a new task with a given description.
 *
 * @param string $projectId The Google Cloud project ID.
 * @param string $description
 */
function add_task(string $projectId, string $description)
{
    $datastore = new DatastoreClient(['projectId' => $projectId]);

    $taskKey = $datastore->key('Task');
    $task = $datastore->entity(
        $taskKey,
        [
            'created' => new DateTime(),
            'description' => $description,
            'done' => false
        ],
        ['excludeFromIndexes' => ['description']]
    );
    $datastore->insert($task);
    printf('Created new task with ID %d.' . PHP_EOL, $task->key()->pathEnd()['id']);
}

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

def add_task(client: datastore.Client, description: str):
    # Create an incomplete key for an entity of kind "Task". An incomplete
    # key is one where Datastore will automatically generate an Id
    key = client.key("Task")

    # Create an unsaved Entity object, and tell Datastore not to index the
    # `description` field
    task = datastore.Entity(key, exclude_from_indexes=("description",))

    # Apply new field values and save the Task entity to Datastore
    task.update(
        {
            "created": datetime.datetime.now(tz=datetime.timezone.utc),
            "description": description,
            "done": False,
        }
    )
    client.put(task)
    return task.key

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.

def add_task description
  require "google/cloud/datastore"

  datastore = Google::Cloud::Datastore.new

  task = datastore.entity "Task" do |t|
    t["description"] = description
    t["created"]     = Time.now
    t["done"]        = false
    t.exclude_from_indexes! "description", true
  end

  datastore.save task

  puts task.key.id

  task.key.id
end

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