Unable to get entity by key id (int64) from Datastore

[gromtech]

For example, datastore already contains an entity with id = 100000000000001234 (18 digits). The integers in JavaScript (numbers without a period or exponent notation) are considered accurate up to 15 digits. 100000000000001234 will be 100000000000001000. Maybe the Long type support (in the cloud.datastore.key method) is a way how to resolve this issue.

[stephenplusplus]

@pcostell does Datastore generate 18 digit IDs?

[gromtech]

Datastore allows us to save entities with 18 digit IDs (generated in our Java app). But it is impossible to get those entities in another services (written on NodeJS). Is there a some way to do this? I did not found it...

[stephenplusplus]

Ah, okay. Thanks for the info. I sent a PR to fix this in #1413.

If you'd like to test it out:

$ npm install --save stephenplusplus/gcloud-node#spp--1412

var id = gcloud.datastore.int('100000000000001234');
var key = datastore.key(['Kind', id]);

// everything from this point should work normally.

[gromtech]

It works. Thank you.

[bjwatson]

Sounds related to #1681