How to connect to the local google cloud Datastore db?

Question

I\'ve GAE application which creates some data in the Google Cloud Datastore and stores some binary files into the Google Cloud Storage - let\'s call the application WebA

Answer 1

Google Cloud Datastore has a local development server that you can use: https://developers.google.com/datastore/docs/tools/devserver

You can create and start the local datastore using the gcd tool which is linked to in the doc above.

If you use DatastoreHelper.getDatastoreFromEnv(); to build your Datastore, you can tell it to connect to your local database by exporting the env variable DATASTORE_HOST:

export DATASTORE_HOST=http://localhost:8080