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# Go App Engine packages
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This repository supports the Go runtime on *App Engine standard* .
It provides APIs for interacting with App Engine services.
Its canonical import path is `google.golang.org/appengine` .
See https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/go/
for more information.
File issue reports and feature requests on the [GitHub's issue
tracker](https://github.com/golang/appengine/issues).
## Upgrading an App Engine app to the flexible environment
This package does not work on *App Engine flexible* .
There are many differences between the App Engine standard environment and
the flexible environment.
See the [documentation on upgrading to the flexible environment ](https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/flexible/go/upgrading ).
## Directory structure
The top level directory of this repository is the `appengine` package. It
contains the
basic APIs (e.g. `appengine.NewContext` ) that apply across APIs. Specific API
packages are in subdirectories (e.g. `datastore` ).
There is an `internal` subdirectory that contains service protocol buffers,
plus packages required for connectivity to make API calls. App Engine apps
should not directly import any package under `internal` .
## Updating from legacy (`import "appengine"`) packages
If you're currently using the bare `appengine` packages
(that is, not these ones, imported via `google.golang.org/appengine` ),
then you can use the `aefix` tool to help automate an upgrade to these packages.
Run `go get google.golang.org/appengine/cmd/aefix` to install it.
### 1. Update import paths
The import paths for App Engine packages are now fully qualified, based at `google.golang.org/appengine` .
You will need to update your code to use import paths starting with that; for instance,
code importing `appengine/datastore` will now need to import `google.golang.org/appengine/datastore` .
### 2. Update code using deprecated, removed or modified APIs
Most App Engine services are available with exactly the same API.
A few APIs were cleaned up, and there are some differences:
* `appengine.Context` has been replaced with the `Context` type from `golang.org/x/net/context` .
* Logging methods that were on `appengine.Context` are now functions in `google.golang.org/appengine/log` .
* `appengine.Timeout` has been removed. Use `context.WithTimeout` instead.
* `appengine.Datacenter` now takes a `context.Context` argument.
* `datastore.PropertyLoadSaver` has been simplified to use slices in place of channels.
* `delay.Call` now returns an error.
* `search.FieldLoadSaver` now handles document metadata.
* `urlfetch.Transport` no longer has a Deadline field; set a deadline on the
`context.Context` instead.
* `aetest` no longer declares its own Context type, and uses the standard one instead.
* `taskqueue.QueueStats` no longer takes a maxTasks argument. That argument has been
deprecated and unused for a long time.
* `appengine.BackendHostname` and `appengine.BackendInstance` were for the deprecated backends feature.
Use `appengine.ModuleHostname` and `appengine.ModuleName` instead.
* Most of `appengine/file` and parts of `appengine/blobstore` are deprecated.
Use [Google Cloud Storage ](https://godoc.org/cloud.google.com/go/storage ) if the
feature you require is not present in the new
[blobstore package ](https://google.golang.org/appengine/blobstore ).
* `appengine/socket` is not required on App Engine flexible environment / Managed VMs.
Use the standard `net` package instead.
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## Key Encode/Decode compatibiltiy to help with datastore library migrations
Key compatibility updates have been added to help customers transition from google.golang.org/appengine/datastore to cloud.google.com/go/datastore.
The `EnableKeyConversion` enables automatic conversion from a key encoded with cloud.google.com/go/datastore to google.golang.org/appengine/datastore key type.
### Enabling key conversion
Enable key conversion by calling `EnableKeyConversion(ctx)` in the `/_ah/start` handler for basic and manual scaling or any handler in automatic scaling.
#### 1. Basic or manual scaling
This start handler will enable key conversion for all handlers in the service.
```
http.HandleFunc("/_ah/start", func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
datastore.EnableKeyConversion(appengine.NewContext(r))
})
```
#### 2. Automatic scaling
`/_ah/start` is not supported for automatic scaling and `/_ah/warmup` is not guaranteed to run, so you must call `datastore.EnableKeyConversion(appengine.NewContext(r))`
before you use code that needs key conversion.
You may want to add this to each of your handlers, or introduce middleware where it's called.
`EnableKeyConversion` is safe for concurrent use. Any call to it after the first is ignored.