This repository supports the Go runtime for Managed VMs on App Engine. 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/managed-vms/ for more information.
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
.
This section describes how to update a traditional Go App Engine app to run on Managed VMs.
The app.yaml
file (and YAML files for modules) should have these new lines added:
vm: true manual_scaling: instances: 1
See https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/go/modules/#Go_Instance_scaling_and_class for details.
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
. You can do that manually, or by running this command to recursively update all Go source files in the current directory: (may require GNU sed)
sed -i '/"appengine/{s,"appengine,"google.golang.org/appengine,;s,appengine_,appengine/,}' \ $(find . -name '*.go')
Most App Engine services are available with exactly the same API. A few APIs were cleaned up, and some are not available yet. This list summarises the differences:
appengine.Context
has been replaced with the Context
type from golang.org/x/net/context
.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.taskqueue.QueueStats
no longer takes a maxTasks argument. That argument has been deprecated and unused for a long time.appengine/aetest
, appengine/cloudsql
and appengine/runtime
have not been ported yet.appengine.BackendHostname
and appengine.BackendInstance
were for the deprecated backends feature. Use appengine.ModuleHostname
and appengine.ModuleName
instead.appengine.IsCapabilityDisabled
and appengine/capability
are obsolete.appengine/file
and parts of appengine/blobstore
are deprecated. Use Google Cloud Storage instead.appengine/socket
is not required on Managed VMs. Use the standard net
package instead.