What's problem with Google Datastore adapter?

[Binh Le Thanh]

Dear Massimo,

What's problem with Google Datastore adapter?

Could you please help explain the problem, I want to fix it.

[Massimo]

Mapping pydal syntax into data Google Datastore or the Firestore feels like trying to put a square peg in a round hole. It will never work very well. It will never support the fill SQL syntax. Some times does not work as expected. And cannot access all of the datastore/firestore APIs because some have no equivalent in pydal. Moreover Google appear to be deprecating the datastore and it is unclear if there is a future. The Firestore appear to be the future (for now).

So I decided to deprecate the datastore and add support for firestore since this is what Google recommends now. It is still a square peg in a round hole.

It is a lot of work to support both and I am not convinced there is any reason to support the legacy datastore.

If you want to try you are welcome.

I think as a first step anyway, if you could help a lot if you could test firestore support. It would help other users and be a learning experience. Even the source code is relatively short.

Massimo

[Binh Le Thanh]

Dear Massimo,

I have need to connect my py4web project to legacy GAE datastore. Which version of adapter should I use?

Thank you

[Massimo DiPierro]

The GAE datastore is no longer supported. At this time DAL only supports the firestore. Perhaps that works with it? I cannot say.