datastore: Allow non-transactional mode for datastore?

[jgeewax]

"I would expect an API in gcloud-node that allows me to do 'upsert', 'lookup', etc. kinds of calls using mode: 'NON_TRANSACTIONAL'."

Any thoughts on this?

[ryanseys]

This is just the dataset.save() method by default I'm pretty sure.

[ryanseys]

That is, requests are non transactional by default and only when you call dataset.runInTransaction(function(transaction){}); are they requested in a transactional mode.

[stephenplusplus]

^ that's correct.

The API docs for save describes how it uses upsert, insert, or update https://googlecloudplatform.github.io/gcloud-node/#/docs/v0.11.0/datastore/dataset?method=save and lookups are done with get: https://googlecloudplatform.github.io/gcloud-node/#/docs/v0.11.0/datastore/dataset?method=get