Use Google Cloud Client Libraries to store files, save entities, and log data
Omar Ayoub
Product Manager
To develop a cloud application, you usually need to access an online object storage, a scalable NoSQL database and a logging infrastructure. To that end, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) provides the Cloud Storage API, the Cloud Datastore API, and the Stackdriver Logging API. Better yet, you can now access those APIs via the latest Google Cloud Client Libraries which we’re proud to announce, are now Generally Available (GA) in seven server-side languages: C#, Go, Java, Node.js, PHP, Python and Ruby.
Online object storage
For your object storage needs, the Cloud Storage API enables you for instance to upload blobs of data, such as picture or movies, directly into buckets. To do so in Node.js for example, you first need to install the Cloud Client Library:and then simply run the following code to upload a local file into a specific bucket:
NoSQL Database
With Cloud Datastore, one of our NoSQL offerings, you can create entities, which are structured objects, and save them in GCP so that they can be retrieved or queried by your application at a later time. Here’s an example in Java, where you specify the maven dependency in the following manner:followed by executing this code to create a task entity:
Logging framework
Our libraries also allow you to send log data and events very easily to the Stackdriver Logging API. As a Python developer for instance, the first step is to install the Cloud Client Library for Logging:Then add the following code to your project (e.g. your __init__.py file):
Then, just use the standard Python logging module to directly report logs to Stackdriver Logging:
We encourage you to visit the client libraries page for Cloud Storage, Cloud Datastore and Stackdriver Logging to learn more on how to get started programmatically with these APIs across all of the supported languages. To see the full list of APIs covered by the Cloud Client Libraries, or to give us feedback, you can also visit the respective GitHub repositories in the Google Cloud Platform organization.
