omitempty fields don't clear struct if they are empty

[dir Ls]

I have a few fields in my struct that have been set to omitempty for datastore tag. The save works as expected. However, if I have a struct with an existing value in any of these fields and I do a Get, it doesn't clear these fields that don't exist in the datastore. Is this the expected behavior? In most cases it is fine and not a worry but when you do RunInTransaction and the logic ends up getting called multiple times due to retry, any partially computed values will still exist even though we are re-reading the entities. This will break the idempotency requirement of the transaction code. Or am I missing something?

[Prateek Malhotra]

I believe omitempty only applies when writing to datastore, it plays no part when reading from datastore.

I think if you have a situation where you update these fields during a transaction, you can probably solve the problem you described by:

• Ensuring whatever calculations you are doing are idempotent OR
• Allocate the structs within the transaction, not outside of it