Hi there,
I can confirm that the Cloud Datastore Client Library is supported on the standard App Engine environment. It is possible to test it by following the Quickstart for PHP App Engine Standard Environment tutorial <https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/php/quickstart> and including the provided code from your referenced Get Started page <https://cloud.google.com/datastore/docs/reference/libraries>. Make sure to install <https://cloud.google.com/datastore/docs/reference/libraries#installing_the_client_library> the client library using composer and note that the PHP application will only connect to the Cloud Datastore when the code is deployed to App Engine. In order to test it locally, you will need to use the Datastore Emulator <https://cloud.google.com/datastore/docs/tools/datastore-emulator> and make sure to specify the appropriate port as described here <http://googlecloudplatform.github.io/google-cloud-php/#/docs/v0.20.0/datastore/datastoreclient> under “Using the Datastore Emulator”. Lastly, this is a Beta release of the Cloud Client Libraries for the Google Cloud Datastore API. These libraries might be changed in backward-incompatible ways and are not subject to any SLA or deprecation policy. Regarding the additional questions about a direct access to Cloud Datastore, these libraries may in fact serve as a good alternative whenever they will come out of Beta. As to the Beta label itself, the Google Cloud Datastore API <https://cloud.google.com/datastore/docs/reference/rest/> was made GA as of August 16th 2016 <https://cloud.google.com/datastore/release-notes>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/939b421a-93ec-4c1b-bd95-0be4a432ee26%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
