Thanks for the clarification. I had suspected it was persisting all fields as it seems to be the source of bug we experienced with overlapping background requests sometimes overwriting each others information even though they dealt with different attributes.
Lodged as feature request <https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/37514419> and will look into a work-around for our code base. On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 6:32 AM, 'Jordan (Cloud Platform Support)' via Google App Engine <[email protected]> wrote: > Currently, when updating a Datastore Entity > <https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/python/ndb/creating-entities#Python_Updating_entities> > you > use the 'put' method. A 'put' in the Datastore is a blind write that saves > the whole entity back to the Datastore without first looking at any > differences. > > If you would like the 'put' operation to work by only writing the delta > difference of the new entity, you can submit a Feature Request > <https://cloud.google.com/support/docs/issue-trackers> with your use-case > and business requirements for the feature. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/google-appengine/fc31bcda-edab-4795-9a22- > 4fac3da1dd36%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/fc31bcda-edab-4795-9a22-4fac3da1dd36%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/CAFzT3uFA8RHLFOtdayB_pvrPpbKSBKLLXDAeT4ig8J6UHZBtHw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
