503 Error when trying anything

[sdog869]

var gcloud = require('gcloud')({
  projectId: "project-id",
  credentials: require('./key.json')
});

var ds = gcloud.datastore.dataset();

I assume "project-id" is the same as the one I see inside the Google API Console.

I get:

{ [Error: Backend Error] errors: [], code: 503, message: 'Backend Error' }

Not sure what this means, I downloaded the service account json and I have enabled the appropriate APIs.

Thanks!

[ryanseys]

Awh, that's rough :( And Google should really give better errors. What exactly are you trying to do? Can you post your code snippet here?

[sdog869]

I got it to work, I think it was the whole you can't use this with projects created under the old API Console thing. And I guess I didn't get that you had to attach it to a compute engine instance, so between those two it seems to be working outside of managed vms, not inside my managed vm I get 'invalid_grant'. Not sure why their would be a difference?

Code is:

ds.save({
  key: ds.key(['Company']),
  data: {
    'name': 'tacos'
  }
}, function(err) {
  if (err) {
    console.log(err);
    return;
  }
  res.send('Hello, world from ' + err);
});

var gcloud = require('gcloud')({
  projectId: "svgimageconverter",
  credentials: require('./svgimageconverter-e0779db28d94.json')
});

var ds = gcloud.datastore.dataset();

[stephenplusplus]

The code snippet will help, but I think this could be an issue on the Google developers console side. Here's a link to the page that lists project IDs: https://console.developers.google.com/project. Is the id you used under the project IDs column there?

[stephenplusplus]

Ignore the last post. Managed VMs plus Datastore is not a relationship that's perfected yet. However, using a private key inside the managed vms instance should work the same as locally.

// @proppy @silvolu for their expertise

[sdog869]

I think on my localhost I had to do:

$ gcloud auth login

Could that be why it works outside of managed vm's but not inside? If so how do I add this to my Docker file? I noticed it pops a URL and I have to manually authorize it so I imagine this won't be possible with a managed vm/docker image right, so how do I accomplish it? Thanks!

[silvolu]

@sdog869 yes, if you were using an old project, your dataset ID would be the App Engine application ID instead of the Developer Console project id, but I don't understand what is going on with the rest of your isses.
Is gcloud-node that is not working or the gcloud command line tool (the one you use to gcloud auth login and similar).?

[stephenplusplus]

@sdog869 any updates on this? Hope everything is working out okay!

[ryanseys]

Closing because he said he got it to work :)