@google-cloud/datastore 0.5.0 does not return entity keys with query results

[stephenplusplus]

From @floodfx on November 9, 2016 16:40

Environment details

• OS: MacOS 10.11.6
• Node.js version: 6.9.1
• npm version: 3.10.8
• google-cloud-node version: 0.43.0
• @google-cloud/datastore version: 0.5.0

Steps to reproduce

git clone [email protected]:GoogleCloudPlatform/nodejs-docs-samples.git
cd nodejs-docs-samples/datastore

Open quickstart.js
Add code below to end of the file

// query for entities
var q = datastoreClient.createQuery(kind)
q.run((err, entities, nextQuery) => {
  console.log(err, entities, nextQuery)
  for(var i = 0; i < entities.length; i++) {
    var task = entities[i];
    console.log(`Task ${task}: Key${task.key}`);
  }
});

Run

npm install
node quickstart.js

Keys returned with entity results.

Next update package.json to use 0.5.0 of @google-cloud/datastore

Run

node quickstart.js

Keys are "undefined".

Copied from original issue: googleapis/google-cloud-node#1780

[stephenplusplus]

From @floodfx on November 9, 2016 16:42

Note the default version of @google-cloud/datastore for nodejs-docs-samples is "^0.1.1"

[stephenplusplus]

Thanks for reporting, @floodfx!

An entity structures its data differently now, not embedding the Key within the object:

datastore.get(key, function(error, entity) {
  // Before:
  entity.key = Key object
  entity.data = {...data...}

  // After:
  entity = {...data...}
  entity[datastore.KEY] = Key object
});

See googleapis/google-cloud-node#1768 for more details.

[floodfx]

Thanks @stephenplusplus. appreciate the link. figured I was missing something obvious. Do you know where this is mentioned in the official docs? I spent a lot of time trying to figure this out before trying a different version. Happy to send a PR on docs if that'd be helpful?

[stephenplusplus]

I'm really sorry about that :( I think we've caught all of the examples in the docs, but they won't update until we cut a new release. If you browse the master docs, you'll see the corrected examples.

Thank you very much for being patient and offering your help!

[jmdobry]

I actually just fixed all of the Datastore samples in this repo to use 0.5.0, the PR is pending review: #249

[puppetmaster3]

Does not work, I tried the new way, and you can't get the key back via query.

[czzarr]

How do you get the key on the front-end without the datastore dependency?