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Package immutable provides immutable collection types. Immutable collections provide an efficient, safe way to share collections of data while minimizing locks. The collections in this package provide List, Map, and SortedMap implementations. These act similarly to slices and maps, respectively, except that altering a collection returns a new copy of the collection with that change. Because collections are unable to change, they are safe for multiple goroutines to read from at the same time without a mutex. However, these types of collections come with increased CPU & memory usage as compared with Go's built-in collection types so please evaluate for your specific use. The List type provides an API similar to Go slices. They allow appending, prepending, and updating of elements. Elements can also be fetched by index or iterated over using a ListIterator. The Map & SortedMap types provide an API similar to Go maps. They allow values to be assigned to unique keys and allow for the deletion of keys. Values can be fetched by key and key/value pairs can be iterated over using the appropriate iterator type. Both map types provide the same API. The SortedMap, however, provides iteration over sorted keys while the Map provides iteration over unsorted keys. Maps improved performance and memory usage as compared to SortedMaps. Map types require the use of a Hasher implementation to calculate hashes for their keys and check for key equality. SortedMaps require the use of a Comparer implementation to sort keys in the map. These collection types automatically provide built-in hasher and comparers for int, string, and byte slice keys. If you are using one of these key types then simply pass a nil into the constructor. Otherwise you will need to implement a custom Hasher or Comparer type. Please see the provided implementations for reference.

Package datastore provides a client for Google Cloud Datastore. See https://godoc.org/cloud.google.com/go for authentication, timeouts, connection pooling and similar aspects of this package. Entities are the unit of storage and are associated with a key. A key consists of an optional parent key, a string application ID, a string kind (also known as an entity type), and either a StringID or an IntID. A StringID is also known as an entity name or key name. It is valid to create a key with a zero StringID and a zero IntID; this is called an incomplete key, and does not refer to any saved entity. Putting an entity into the datastore under an incomplete key will cause a unique key to be generated for that entity, with a non-zero IntID. An entity's contents are a mapping from case-sensitive field names to values. Valid value types are: Slices of structs are valid, as are structs that contain slices. The Get and Put functions load and save an entity's contents. An entity's contents are typically represented by a struct pointer. Example code: GetMulti, PutMulti and DeleteMulti are batch versions of the Get, Put and Delete functions. They take a []*Key instead of a *Key, and may return a datastore.MultiError when encountering partial failure. Mutate generalizes PutMulti and DeleteMulti to a sequence of any Datastore mutations. It takes a series of mutations created with NewInsert, NewUpdate, NewUpsert and NewDelete and applies them. Datastore.Mutate uses non-transactional mode; if atomicity is required, use Transaction.Mutate instead. An entity's contents can be represented by a variety of types. These are typically struct pointers, but can also be any type that implements the PropertyLoadSaver interface. If using a struct pointer, you do not have to explicitly implement the PropertyLoadSaver interface; the datastore will automatically convert via reflection. If a struct pointer does implement PropertyLoadSaver then those methods will be used in preference to the default behavior for struct pointers. Struct pointers are more strongly typed and are easier to use; PropertyLoadSavers are more flexible. The actual types passed do not have to match between Get and Put calls or even across different calls to datastore. It is valid to put a *PropertyList and get that same entity as a *myStruct, or put a *myStruct0 and get a *myStruct1. Conceptually, any entity is saved as a sequence of properties, and is loaded into the destination value on a property-by-property basis. When loading into a struct pointer, an entity that cannot be completely represented (such as a missing field) will result in an ErrFieldMismatch error but it is up to the caller whether this error is fatal, recoverable or ignorable. By default, for struct pointers, all properties are potentially indexed, and the property name is the same as the field name (and hence must start with an upper case letter). Fields may have a `datastore:"name,options"` tag. The tag name is the property name, which must be one or more valid Go identifiers joined by ".", but may start with a lower case letter. An empty tag name means to just use the field name. A "-" tag name means that the datastore will ignore that field. The only valid options are "omitempty", "noindex" and "flatten". If the options include "omitempty" and the value of the field is an empty value, then the field will be omitted on Save. Empty values are defined as false, 0, a nil pointer, a nil interface value, the zero time.Time, and any empty slice or string. (Empty slices are never saved, even without "omitempty".) Other structs, including GeoPoint, are never considered empty. If options include "noindex" then the field will not be indexed. All fields are indexed by default. Strings or byte slices longer than 1500 bytes cannot be indexed; fields used to store long strings and byte slices must be tagged with "noindex" or they will cause Put operations to fail. For a nested struct field, the options may also include "flatten". This indicates that the immediate fields and any nested substruct fields of the nested struct should be flattened. See below for examples. To use multiple options together, separate them by a comma. The order does not matter. If the options is "" then the comma may be omitted. Example code: A field of slice type corresponds to a Datastore array property, except for []byte, which corresponds to a Datastore blob. Zero-length slice fields are not saved. Slice fields of length 1 or greater are saved as Datastore arrays. When a zero-length Datastore array is loaded into a slice field, the slice field remains unchanged. If a non-array value is loaded into a slice field, the result will be a slice with one element, containing the value. Loading a Datastore Null into a basic type (int, float, etc.) results in a zero value. Loading a Null into a slice of basic type results in a slice of size 1 containing the zero value. Loading a Null into a pointer field results in nil. Loading a Null into a field of struct type is an error. A struct field can be a pointer to a signed integer, floating-point number, string or bool. Putting a non-nil pointer will store its dereferenced value. Putting a nil pointer will store a Datastore Null property, unless the field is marked omitempty, in which case no property will be stored. Loading a Null into a pointer field sets the pointer to nil. Loading any other value allocates new storage with the value, and sets the field to point to it. If the struct contains a *datastore.Key field tagged with the name "__key__", its value will be ignored on Put. When reading the Entity back into the Go struct, the field will be populated with the *datastore.Key value used to query for the Entity. Example code: If the struct pointed to contains other structs, then the nested or embedded structs are themselves saved as Entity values. For example, given these definitions: then an Outer would have one property, Inner, encoded as an Entity value. Note: embedded struct fields must be named to be encoded as an Entity. For example, in case of a type Outer with an embedded field Inner: all the Inner struct fields will be treated as fields of Outer itself. If an outer struct is tagged "noindex" then all of its implicit flattened fields are effectively "noindex". If the Inner struct contains a *Key field with the name "__key__", like so: then the value of K will be used as the Key for Inner, represented as an Entity value in datastore. If any nested struct fields should be flattened, instead of encoded as Entity values, the nested struct field should be tagged with the "flatten" option. For example, given the following: an Outer's properties would be equivalent to those of: Note that the "flatten" option cannot be used for Entity value fields or PropertyLoadSaver implementers. The server will reject any dotted field names for an Entity value. An entity's contents can also be represented by any type that implements the PropertyLoadSaver interface. This type may be a struct pointer, but it does not have to be. The datastore package will call Load when getting the entity's contents, and Save when putting the entity's contents. Possible uses include deriving non-stored fields, verifying fields, or indexing a field only if its value is positive. Example code: The *PropertyList type implements PropertyLoadSaver, and can therefore hold an arbitrary entity's contents. If a type implements the PropertyLoadSaver interface, it may also want to implement the KeyLoader interface. The KeyLoader interface exists to allow implementations of PropertyLoadSaver to also load an Entity's Key into the Go type. This type may be a struct pointer, but it does not have to be. The datastore package will call LoadKey when getting the entity's contents, after calling Load. Example code: To load a Key into a struct which does not implement the PropertyLoadSaver interface, see the "Key Field" section above. Queries retrieve entities based on their properties or key's ancestry. Running a query yields an iterator of results: either keys or (key, entity) pairs. Queries are re-usable and it is safe to call Query.Run from concurrent goroutines. Iterators are not safe for concurrent use. Queries are immutable, and are either created by calling NewQuery, or derived from an existing query by calling a method like Filter or Order that returns a new query value. A query is typically constructed by calling NewQuery followed by a chain of zero or more such methods. These methods are: Example code: Client.RunInTransaction runs a function in a transaction. Example code: Pass the ReadOnly option to RunInTransaction if your transaction is used only for Get, GetMulti or queries. Read-only transactions are more efficient. This package supports the Cloud Datastore emulator, which is useful for testing and development. Environment variables are used to indicate that datastore traffic should be directed to the emulator instead of the production Datastore service. To install and set up the emulator and its environment variables, see the documentation at https://cloud.google.com/datastore/docs/tools/datastore-emulator. To use the emulator with this library, you can set the DATASTORE_EMULATOR_HOST environment variable to the address at which your emulator is running. This will send requests to that address instead of to Cloud Datastore. You can then create and use a client as usual:

This package is the root package of the govmomi library. The library is structured as follows: The minimal usable functionality is available through the vim25 package. It contains subpackages that contain generated types, managed objects, and all available methods. The vim25 package is entirely independent of the other packages in the govmomi tree -- it has no dependencies on its peers. The vim25 package itself contains a client structure that is passed around throughout the entire library. It abstracts a session and its immutable state. See the vim25 package for more information. The session package contains an abstraction for the session manager that allows a user to login and logout. It also provides access to the current session (i.e. to determine if the user is in fact logged in) The object package contains wrappers for a selection of managed objects. The constructors of these objects all take a *vim25.Client, which they pass along to derived objects, if applicable. The govc package contains the govc CLI. The code in this tree is not intended to be used as a library. Any functionality that govc contains that _could_ be used as a library function but isn't, _should_ live in a root level package. Other packages, such as "event", "guest", or "license", provide wrappers for the respective subsystems. They are typically not needed in normal workflows so are kept outside the object package.

Package netip defines an IP address type that's a small value type. Building on that Addr type, the package also defines AddrPort (an IP address and a port), and Prefix (an IP address and a bit length prefix). Compared to the net.IP type, this package's Addr type takes less memory, is immutable, and is comparable (supports == and being a map key).

This package provides immutable UUID structs and the functions NewV3, NewV4, NewV5 and Parse() for generating versions 3, 4 and 5 UUIDs as specified in RFC 4122. Copyright (C) 2011 by Krzysztof Kowalik <chris@nu7hat.ch>

Package iavl implements a versioned, snapshottable (immutable) AVL+ tree for persisting key-value pairs. The tree is not safe for concurrent use, and must be guarded by a Mutex or RWLock as appropriate - the exception is immutable trees returned by MutableTree.GetImmutable() which are safe for concurrent use as long as the version is not deleted via DeleteVersion(). Basic usage of MutableTree: Proof of existence: Proof of absence: Now we delete an old version: Can't create a proof of absence for a version we no longer have:

Package iavl implements a versioned, snapshottable (immutable) AVL+ tree for persisting key-value pairs. The tree is not safe for concurrent use, and must be guarded by a Mutex or RWLock as appropriate - the exception is immutable trees returned by MutableTree.GetImmutable() which are safe for concurrent use as long as the version is not deleted via DeleteVersion(). Basic usage of MutableTree: Proof of existence: Proof of absence: Now we delete an old version: Can't create a proof of absence for a version we no longer have:

Package cbor is a modern CBOR codec (RFC 8949 & RFC 7049) with CBOR tags, Go struct tags (toarray/keyasint/omitempty), Core Deterministic Encoding, CTAP2, Canonical CBOR, float64->32->16, and duplicate map key detection. Encoding options allow "preferred serialization" by encoding integers and floats to their smallest forms (e.g. float16) when values fit. Struct tags like "keyasint", "toarray" and "omitempty" make CBOR data smaller and easier to use with structs. For example, "toarray" tag makes struct fields encode to CBOR array elements. And "keyasint" makes a field encode to an element of CBOR map with specified int key. Latest docs can be viewed at https://github.com/fxamacker/cbor#cbor-library-in-go The Quick Start guide is at https://github.com/fxamacker/cbor#quick-start Function signatures identical to encoding/json include: Standard interfaces include: Custom encoding and decoding is possible by implementing standard interfaces for user-defined Go types. Codec functions are available at package-level (using defaults options) or by creating modes from options at runtime. "Mode" in this API means definite way of encoding (EncMode) or decoding (DecMode). EncMode and DecMode interfaces are created from EncOptions or DecOptions structs. Modes use immutable options to avoid side-effects and simplify concurrency. Behavior of modes won't accidentally change at runtime after they're created. Modes are intended to be reused and are safe for concurrent use. EncMode and DecMode Interfaces Using Default Encoding Mode Using Default Decoding Mode Creating and Using Encoding Modes Predefined Encoding Options: https://github.com/fxamacker/cbor#predefined-encoding-options Encoding Options: https://github.com/fxamacker/cbor#encoding-options Decoding Options: https://github.com/fxamacker/cbor#decoding-options Struct tags like `cbor:"name,omitempty"` and `json:"name,omitempty"` work as expected. If both struct tags are specified then `cbor` is used. Struct tags like "keyasint", "toarray", and "omitempty" make it easy to use very compact formats like COSE and CWT (CBOR Web Tokens) with structs. For example, "toarray" makes struct fields encode to array elements. And "keyasint" makes struct fields encode to elements of CBOR map with int keys. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fxamacker/images/master/cbor/v2.0.0/cbor_easy_api.png Struct tags are listed at https://github.com/fxamacker/cbor#struct-tags-1 Over 375 tests are included in this package. Cover-guided fuzzing is handled by a private fuzzer that replaced fxamacker/cbor-fuzz years ago.

Package netaddr contains a IP address type that's in many ways better than the Go standard library's net.IP type. Building on that IP type, the package also contains IPPrefix, IPPort, IPRange, and IPSet types. Notably, this package's IP type takes less memory, is immutable, comparable (supports == and being a map key), and more. See https://github.com/inetaf/netaddr for background. IP and IPPort are the only types in this package that support IPv6 zones. Other types silently drop any passed-in zones.

Package graph contains generic implementations of basic graph algorithms. The algorithms in this library can be applied to any graph data structure implementing the two Iterator methods: Order, which returns the number of vertices, and Visit, which iterates over the neighbors of a vertex. All algorithms operate on directed graphs with a fixed number of vertices, labeled from 0 to n-1, and edges with integer cost. An undirected edge {v, w} of cost c is represented by the two directed edges (v, w) and (w, v), both of cost c. A self-loop, an edge connecting a vertex to itself, is both directed and undirected. The type Mutable represents a directed graph with a fixed number of vertices and weighted edges that can be added or removed. The implementation uses hash maps to associate each vertex in the graph with its adjacent vertices. This gives constant time performance for all basic operations. The type Immutable is a compact representation of an immutable graph. The implementation uses lists to associate each vertex in the graph with its adjacent vertices. This makes for fast and predictable iteration: the Visit method produces its elements by reading from a fixed sorted precomputed list. This type supports multigraphs. The subpackage graph/build offers a tool for building virtual graphs. In a virtual graph no vertices or edges are stored in memory, they are instead computed as needed. New virtual graphs are constructed by composing and filtering a set of standard graphs, or by writing functions that describe the edges of a graph. The Basics example shows how to build a plain graph and how to efficiently use the Visit iterator, the key abstraction of this package. The DFS example contains a full implementation of depth-first search. Build a plain graph and visit all of its edges. Show how to use this package by implementing a complete depth-first search.

Package builder provides a method for writing fluent immutable builders.

Package safehtml provides immutable string-like types which represent values that are guaranteed to be safe, by construction or by escaping or sanitization, to use in various HTML contexts and with various DOM APIs.

Package merry adds context to errors, including automatic stack capture, cause chains, HTTP status code, user messages, and arbitrary values. Wrapped errors work a lot like google's golang.org/x/net/context package: each wrapper error contains the inner error, a key, and a value. Like contexts, errors are immutable: adding a key/value to an error always creates a new error which wraps the original. This package comes with built-in support for adding information to errors: * stacktraces * changing the error message * HTTP status codes * End user error messages * causes You can also add your own additional information. The stack capturing feature can be turned off for better performance, though it's pretty fast. Benchmarks on an 2017 MacBook Pro, with go 1.10: This package contains functions for creating errors, or wrapping existing errors. To create: Additional context information can be attached to errors using functional options, called Wrappers: Errorf() also accepts wrappers, mixed in with the format args: Wrappers can be applied to existing errors with Wrap(): Wrap() will add a stacktrace to any error which doesn't already have one attached. WrapSkipping() can be used to control where the stacktrace starts. This package contains wrappers for adding specific context information to errors, such as an HTTPCode. You can create your own wrappers using the primitive Value(), WithValue(), and Set() functions. Errors produced by this package implement fmt.Formatter, to print additional information about the error: Details() prints the error message, all causes, the stacktrace, and additional error values configured with RegisterDetailFunc(). By default, it will show the HTTP status code and user message. By default, any error created by or wrapped by this package will automatically have a stacktrace captured and attached to the error. This capture only happens if the error doesn't already have a stack attached to it, so wrapping the error with additional context won't capture additional stacks. When and how stacks are captured can be customized. SetMaxStackDepth() can globally configure how many frames to capture. SetStackCaptureEnabled() can globally configure whether stacks are captured by default. Wrap(err, NoStackCapture()) can be used to selectively suppress stack capture for a particular error. Wrap(err, CaptureStack(false)) will capture a new stack at the Wrap call site, even if the err already had an earlier stack attached. The new stack overrides the older stack. Wrap(err, CaptureStack(true)) will force a stack capture at the call site even if stack capture is disabled globally. Finally, Wrappers are passed a depth argument so they know how deep they are in the call stack from the call site where this package's API was called. This allows Wrappers to implement their own stack capturing logic. The package contains functions for creating new errors with stacks, or adding a stack to `error` instances. Functions with add context (e.g. `WithValue()`) work on any `error`, and will automatically convert them to merry errors (with a stack) if necessary. AddHooks() can install wrappers which are applied to all errors processed by this package. Hooks are applied before any other wrappers or processing takes place. They can be used to integrate with errors from other packages, normalizing errors (such as applying standard status codes to application errors), localizing user messages, or replacing the stack capturing mechanism.

Golog aspires to be an ISO Prolog interpreter. It currently supports a small subset of the standard. Any deviations from the standard are bugs. Typical usage looks something like this: This sample highlights a few key aspects of using Golog. To start, Golog data structures are immutable. NewMachine() creates an empty Golog machine containing just the standard library. Consult() creates another new machine with some extra code loaded. The original, empty machine is untouched. It's common to build a large Golog machine during init() and then add extra rules to it at runtime. Because Golog machines are immutable, multiple goroutines can access, run and "modify" machines in parallel. This design also opens possibilities for and-parallel and or-parallel execution. Most methods, like Consult(), can accept Prolog code in several forms. The example above shows Prolog as a string. We could have used any io.Reader instead. Error handling is one oddity. Golog methods follow Go convention by returning an error value to indicate that something went wrong. However, in many cases the caller knows that an error is highly improbable and doesn't want extra code to deal with the common case. For most methods, Golog offers one with a trailing underscore, like ByName_(), which panics on error instead of returning an error value. See also:

Notes for the programmer: ------------------------- The underlying value describing an *Element will be an int64 when possible; otherwise it will be a *big.Int. You should attempt to gain the performance boost of using int64 versions of your computations when possible. Typical code will branch into two cases: Take care not to modify the *big.Int returned by x.bigInt(), as this will modify the corresponding *Element (thus breaking our contract of immutability). Similarly, do not allow this *big.Int to escape into user-land. The implementation attempts to guarantee that there is a unique 0 and 1 *Element element, returned via the functions Zero() and One(). However this isn't completely true: following good Go standard, a nil *Element behaves identically to 0. Furthermore, there's nothing stoping a user from writing: and thus creating a new, distinct 0. Care must be taken when adding new package functions: you should use the methods x.IsZero() and x.IsOne(). It's good practice to try to reuse Zero() and One(), rather than allowing additional copies of 0 or 1 to leak out of the package. The easiest way to ensure this is to use FromInt64(n) and fromBigIntAndReuse(n) to convert your working value into a *Element suitable for returning to the user. Performance-wise, the biggest issue is big.Int.Mul(x,y), when x and y are large. Here Magma vastly outperforms big.Int. A quick search on the web shows that there exist several different algorithms for computing x * y, with different performance characteristics that depend on the size of x and y. Implementing these different algorithms, and modifying big.Int so that it uses the appropriate algorithm in each case, is a clear future task.

Fully persistent data structures. A persistent data structure is a data structure that always preserves the previous version of itself when it is modified. Such data structures are effectively immutable, as their operations do not update the structure in-place, but instead always yield a new structure. Persistent data structures typically share structure among themselves. This allows operations to avoid copying the entire data structure.

Package hamt provides immutable collection types of maps (associative arrays) and sets implemented as Hash-Array Mapped Tries (HAMTs). All operations of the collections, such as insert and delete, are immutable and create new ones keeping original ones unmodified.

Package datastore provides a client for Google Cloud Datastore. See https://godoc.org/cloud.google.com/go for authentication, timeouts, connection pooling and similar aspects of this package. Entities are the unit of storage and are associated with a key. A key consists of an optional parent key, a string application ID, a string kind (also known as an entity type), and either a StringID or an IntID. A StringID is also known as an entity name or key name. It is valid to create a key with a zero StringID and a zero IntID; this is called an incomplete key, and does not refer to any saved entity. Putting an entity into the datastore under an incomplete key will cause a unique key to be generated for that entity, with a non-zero IntID. An entity's contents are a mapping from case-sensitive field names to values. Valid value types are: Slices of structs are valid, as are structs that contain slices. The Get and Put functions load and save an entity's contents. An entity's contents are typically represented by a struct pointer. Example code: GetMulti, PutMulti and DeleteMulti are batch versions of the Get, Put and Delete functions. They take a []*Key instead of a *Key, and may return a datastore.MultiError when encountering partial failure. Mutate generalizes PutMulti and DeleteMulti to a sequence of any Datastore mutations. It takes a series of mutations created with NewInsert, NewUpdate, NewUpsert and NewDelete and applies them atomically. An entity's contents can be represented by a variety of types. These are typically struct pointers, but can also be any type that implements the PropertyLoadSaver interface. If using a struct pointer, you do not have to explicitly implement the PropertyLoadSaver interface; the datastore will automatically convert via reflection. If a struct pointer does implement PropertyLoadSaver then those methods will be used in preference to the default behavior for struct pointers. Struct pointers are more strongly typed and are easier to use; PropertyLoadSavers are more flexible. The actual types passed do not have to match between Get and Put calls or even across different calls to datastore. It is valid to put a *PropertyList and get that same entity as a *myStruct, or put a *myStruct0 and get a *myStruct1. Conceptually, any entity is saved as a sequence of properties, and is loaded into the destination value on a property-by-property basis. When loading into a struct pointer, an entity that cannot be completely represented (such as a missing field) will result in an ErrFieldMismatch error but it is up to the caller whether this error is fatal, recoverable or ignorable. By default, for struct pointers, all properties are potentially indexed, and the property name is the same as the field name (and hence must start with an upper case letter). Fields may have a `datastore:"name,options"` tag. The tag name is the property name, which must be one or more valid Go identifiers joined by ".", but may start with a lower case letter. An empty tag name means to just use the field name. A "-" tag name means that the datastore will ignore that field. The only valid options are "omitempty", "noindex" and "flatten". If the options include "omitempty" and the value of the field is a zero value, then the field will be omitted on Save. Zero values are best defined in the golang spec (https://golang.org/ref/spec#The_zero_value). Struct field values will never be empty, except for nil pointers. If options include "noindex" then the field will not be indexed. All fields are indexed by default. Strings or byte slices longer than 1500 bytes cannot be indexed; fields used to store long strings and byte slices must be tagged with "noindex" or they will cause Put operations to fail. For a nested struct field, the options may also include "flatten". This indicates that the immediate fields and any nested substruct fields of the nested struct should be flattened. See below for examples. To use multiple options together, separate them by a comma. The order does not matter. If the options is "" then the comma may be omitted. Example code: A field of slice type corresponds to a Datastore array property, except for []byte, which corresponds to a Datastore blob. Zero-length slice fields are not saved. Slice fields of length 1 or greater are saved as Datastore arrays. When a zero-length Datastore array is loaded into a slice field, the slice field remains unchanged. If a non-array value is loaded into a slice field, the result will be a slice with one element, containing the value. Loading a Datastore Null into a basic type (int, float, etc.) results in a zero value. Loading a Null into a slice of basic type results in a slice of size 1 containing the zero value. Loading a Null into a pointer field results in nil. Loading a Null into a field of struct type is an error. A struct field can be a pointer to a signed integer, floating-point number, string or bool. Putting a non-nil pointer will store its dereferenced value. Putting a nil pointer will store a Datastore Null property, unless the field is marked omitempty, in which case no property will be stored. Loading a Null into a pointer field sets the pointer to nil. Loading any other value allocates new storage with the value, and sets the field to point to it. If the struct contains a *datastore.Key field tagged with the name "__key__", its value will be ignored on Put. When reading the Entity back into the Go struct, the field will be populated with the *datastore.Key value used to query for the Entity. Example code: If the struct pointed to contains other structs, then the nested or embedded structs are themselves saved as Entity values. For example, given these definitions: then an Outer would have one property, Inner, encoded as an Entity value. If an outer struct is tagged "noindex" then all of its implicit flattened fields are effectively "noindex". If the Inner struct contains a *Key field with the name "__key__", like so: then the value of K will be used as the Key for Inner, represented as an Entity value in datastore. If any nested struct fields should be flattened, instead of encoded as Entity values, the nested struct field should be tagged with the "flatten" option. For example, given the following: an Outer's properties would be equivalent to those of: Note that the "flatten" option cannot be used for Entity value fields. The server will reject any dotted field names for an Entity value. An entity's contents can also be represented by any type that implements the PropertyLoadSaver interface. This type may be a struct pointer, but it does not have to be. The datastore package will call Load when getting the entity's contents, and Save when putting the entity's contents. Possible uses include deriving non-stored fields, verifying fields, or indexing a field only if its value is positive. Example code: The *PropertyList type implements PropertyLoadSaver, and can therefore hold an arbitrary entity's contents. If a type implements the PropertyLoadSaver interface, it may also want to implement the KeyLoader interface. The KeyLoader interface exists to allow implementations of PropertyLoadSaver to also load an Entity's Key into the Go type. This type may be a struct pointer, but it does not have to be. The datastore package will call LoadKey when getting the entity's contents, after calling Load. Example code: To load a Key into a struct which does not implement the PropertyLoadSaver interface, see the "Key Field" section above. Queries retrieve entities based on their properties or key's ancestry. Running a query yields an iterator of results: either keys or (key, entity) pairs. Queries are re-usable and it is safe to call Query.Run from concurrent goroutines. Iterators are not safe for concurrent use. Queries are immutable, and are either created by calling NewQuery, or derived from an existing query by calling a method like Filter or Order that returns a new query value. A query is typically constructed by calling NewQuery followed by a chain of zero or more such methods. These methods are: Example code: Client.RunInTransaction runs a function in a transaction. Example code: Pass the ReadOnly option to RunInTransaction if your transaction is used only for Get, GetMulti or queries. Read-only transactions are more efficient. This package supports the Cloud Datastore emulator, which is useful for testing and development. Environment variables are used to indicate that datastore traffic should be directed to the emulator instead of the production Datastore service. To install and set up the emulator and its environment variables, see the documentation at https://cloud.google.com/datastore/docs/tools/datastore-emulator.

Package gkvlite provides a simple, ordered, ACID, key-value persistence library. It provides persistent, immutable data structure abstrations.