I would like to create an entity in my datastore from the admin console on google app engine.
To do this, I read I must clicked on the tab "create" in the datastore viewer BUT I don't have this link.
I have just the "query" tab and as I have no data, nothing appears.
How can I create an entity from the admin console on google app engine?
App Engine will only let you create new entities for a Kind that has already been defined. If you haven't ever saved anything to the datastore, your datastore is a blank slate, and you won't be able to query or create in it.
If you don't want to deploy code in order to write your first entities to the datastore, you can enable the interactive console in production, and write code that generates a model, populates, and saves it. Once you've done that, your Create link should appear.
Check the permissions section maybe you only have the Viewer role which doesn't allow you to create entities.
BTW, the create link looks like this:
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I am very, very new to Google App Engine, but I need to administer a WebApp2 (so, Python) -based website that uses it. Specifically I need to filter a queryset and delete certain model instances.
Building the site locally is fine. Locally I can get at the models by hitting
http://localhost:8000/console
in my browser. This pulls up the "interactive console", and in there I can put some code like
from application.models.user import User
and it will work. From there I can create / delete User objects in the Datastore, so this local interactive console seems to have ORM-like functionality. (I'm coming from a Django background, so that's what it reminds me of).
However I don't seem to have this option on the live website. I was hoping to find it at
https://console.cloud.google.com/home/dashboard?project=<my project>
And I thought I had found it when I found the control to "activate google cloud shell". This brings up a command line on the web server, but the website's codebase doesn't seem to exist here, so launching the Python cli and trying to import the applications models like I can do locally doesn't work. And even if I could, I doubt it would be a Django-like ORM the way it is on my local build.
Am I thinking about this in the wrong way? How do you create / filter / delete / etc. Datastore objects via the backend in a GAE / WebApp2 website? Is the "Google cloud shell" even part of the answer?
To get access to your app code in the cloud shell one option would be to create in the shell a local copy of your app repository. For an example (addressing a different question, true) you can peek at Google Cloud: How to deploy mirrored Repository. But I'm not 100% certain if that will automatically give you access to your app's datastore. Worth a try IMHO.
Another option is to hook the desired operations as handler actions inside your app itself and execute them from there. Eventually hidden/protected/restricted via authentication, for example for admin users only. This is what I use for one-time datastore migrations that I need from time to time when I make changes to my entity models.
Finally, but not really a programatic access - you could use the Datastore page in the developer console to manually find, read and modify your entities, see Managing Datastore from the Console.
Use the remote_api_shell. You run this locally where your application code lives. Then you can import your models, and perform the same queries etc, and add modify/delete entities. I use this frequently for a range of tasks. Updating more than 100K records can become slow using this method.
https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/python/tools/remoteapi
Is there a way to create a new Datastore entity kind via some interactive means for Go App Engine apps? The datastore viewer won't let me add new entity kinds, and the interactive console doesn't seem to support Go.
I'm trying to upload some configuration data to datastore, including sensitive data that I don't want to appear in code. So far the best method I can come up with is to write some code to write an empty configuration entity, deploy, run, then use the datastore viewer to set the values.
Thanks in advance.
You absolutely can add new Entity Kinds in the Console.
In the Cloud Console, Click on the Datastore menu item, then 'Create an Entity'. Handy link, just select your project name
Then in the Kind field, just type in your desired Kind name.
First of all your code is safe at AppEngine - nobody can download it. At least nobody outside of Google. You can deploy it to a dedicated version/module and restrict usage to yourself (check current user, ask pass-phrase, etc in your code).
Second you can use Remote API - this way you do not upload any code to AppEngine. You can create entities remotely as you wish using secure HTTPS connection.
I have made an android app which saves user input data in a googele app engine datastore. I want to view the stored entity on google developers console.
How can I do it? On left hand side menu I can see Query menu which takes me to my entity page but no entities are shown, just an ID.
Please advise.
Manish
If no entities are shown, this means there are no entities. If you see something like
id= 595005
and nothing else, this means you have an entity with no properties.
You can also try the older version of the Datastore Viewer (look for the link in the left menu).
I read about the DataStore admin, but can't find it in the console. Also, the doc says the feature is experimental?
More clarification:
We have an enterprise application, and we need to be able to take backups of our data at a certain frequency. Since we are using Google App Engine, we need to be able to take a backup off the App Engine DataStore. When I go into the Admin console, I can see the option to view the entities, I see "Dashboard","Query" and "Index" but nothing to take a backup of the DataStore data, say to something like CloudStorage. Also, when I go to localhost:8000/datastore, I see the same.
Datastore Admin is only available to Python applications - or rather, applications with a Python version. If your app is Java, you can deploy an empty/trivial app to a non-default version.
There's a note on this in the docs, here.
At the time of your request it was only available in the old GAE console.
Since few weeks it has been integrated in the new console as well.
Go to Storage/Cloud Datastore/Settings, then the first time you'll have to "Enable Datastore Admin", then you'll have a new button "Open Datastore Admin"
I'm quite new to Google App Engine and it's cloud Datastore which is used for storing the backend's data by default. As far as I realized you can only view it's content within the developer console and you can create or edit entities there.
But is there any external tool from which you can connect to your datastore to create reports or administer the data? What is your experience?
In fact yes it's true you can only see data's from the admin console.
If you wish to see your data's in Google Drive Table and make a report you can, but for that you need to create a connector to your sheet (I already made one). It's exactly the same if you need update or import data's to your datastore.
I use this Technic to upload or refresh products on my e-shop GAE app.
In general if I need to see a report, I design a specific web page for that and I protect theme via a login / password. To see a well formatted report you can use jquery library or use Google Charts