I manage to create or modify a datastore entity fine with google.cloud.datastore in python, but when I log in into my Cloud Platform project in the browser and check the entry, it looks like all of its properties are encrypted (They look like "Rm9vIEJhcg==" and such - If I create it from the browser I can see the normally).
I am authenticating with a service account identity's json file:
self.client = datastore.Client()
self.client = self.client.from_service_account_json(cert_file.json)
The service account has "editor" permissions on the whole project. Changing it to "Owner", which is the one set for the gmail account I use to log in, doesn't fix the issues.
I create the entity like this:
with self.datastore.client.transaction():
entity = Entity(Key("key", project="project"))
entity["property"] = "data"
self.datastore.client.put(entity)
Any way to make it so the entry I modify with the python library are readable from the browser site?
The value is not really encrypted, rather encoded with Base64. The reason for this is the value is stored as a Blob (raw bytes), instead of Text/Character String. The Console displays Blob fields in Base64 format. The value, Rm9vIEJhcg==, when decoded with Base64, is Foo Bar.
I don't have much knowledge in Python, but take a look at the Note from the official documentation:
When saving an entity to the backend, values which are “text” (unicode in Python2, str in Python3) will be saved using the ‘text_value’ field, after being encoded to UTF-8. When retrieved from the back-end, such values will be decoded to “text” again. Values which are “bytes” (str in Python2, bytes in Python3), will be saved using the ‘blob_value’ field, without any decoding / encoding step.
Depending on the version of Python you are using, adjust the data type for your data and the issue should be resolved.