Couldn't find any existing Go
specific answer so creating a new one.
Our datastore consist of following columns/attributes
Name/ID Email UserID UserName
Now, I want to retrieve these values into my Go
struct. Here is what i have written
type UserDetails struct {
NameID string
Email string `datastore:"Email"`
UserID string `datastore:"UserID"`
UserName string `datastore:UserName`
}
Now, when i am fetching this entity (based on kind), I am manually setting the NameID
i.e.,
func (c DataStoreClient) GetUserDetailsByOrg(ctx context.Context, orgName string) ([]*UserDetails, error) {
var userDetails []*UserDetails
q := datastore.NewQuery(userDetailsKind).
Namespace(orgName)
keys, err := c.client.GetAll(ctx, q, &userDetails)
for i, key := range keys {
userDetails[i].NameID = key.Name
}
return userDetails, err
}
Now, the question that i want to ask that is this the correct approach to retrieve Name/ID
or can i retrieve it by specifying datastore:Name/ID
in struct?
Implement the KeyLoader interface to set the field during entity load.
type UserDetails struct {
NameID string `datastore:"-"`
Email string `datastore:"Email"`
UserID string `datastore:"UserID"`
UserName string `datastore:UserName`
}
func (ud *UserDetails) LoadKey(k *datastore.Key) error {
ud.NameID = k.Name
return nil
}
func (ud *UserDetails) Load(ps []datastore.Property) error {
return datastore.LoadStruct(ud, ps)
}
func (ud *UserDetails) Save() ([]datastore.Property, error) {
return datastore.SaveStruct(ud)
}
Use it like this:
func (c DataStoreClient) GetUserDetailsByOrg(ctx context.Context, orgName string) ([]*UserDetails, error) {
var userDetails []*UserDetails
q := datastore.NewQuery(userDetailsKind).
Namespace(orgName)
_, err := c.client.GetAll(ctx, q, &userDetails)
return userDetails, err
}
The approach in the question works. The advantage of the KeyLoader implementation is that it saves a couple of lines of code wherever the application queries for or gets an entity.
Set the NameID datastore name to "-" so that the property loader and saver ignores the field.
Your approach is fine. However, because you have NameID without any tag, there will be a datastore entity property with that name set to nothing. It's an unnecessary property to store. So, you could make it "NameID string datastore:"-"
so datastore ignores it. Alternatively, if you are not exporting this field outside the package or via JSON, you can use a lower case name like "nameID".
Another approach you have is to automatically get the entire key by having a "key" field. You can learn more about it in Key Field
https://godoc.org/cloud.google.com/go/datastore#hdr-Key_Field