bigtable: add raw gcloud-python hello sample. #384
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@lesv @jonparrott please take a look. |
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extra newline between expressions and control statements, please.
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Done.
I hadn't heard that rule before. Seems like this check should be automated and made part of the linter.
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/shruggie
It's more a personal nit of mine than something that's been codified.
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LGTM once you've done Jon's comments. Mine will need to happen next week. |
This sample uses the "raw" [gcloud-python Cloud Bigtable package](https://googlecloudplatform.github.io/gcloud-python/stable/bigtable-usage.html).
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Not saying this needs to block the merge, but I think it's better to separate these actions into separate functions. 1) because smaller methods are better 2) because it makes it easier to define a CLI , jon suggested it for the logging samples which you can see here, which to me makes the sample more interactive/usable.
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Yeah, I the sound of that. Right now the sample is kind of boring, though it does show the basic operations.
There is a Go command-line program for Bigtable, https://godoc.org/google.golang.org/cloud/bigtable/cmd/cbt, though that covers more operations than are probably necessary for a "hello world" app, but I do think it makes sense to do something similar here.
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Another benefit (or maybe downside?) of splitting it into functions and adding a command-line interface is it would almost force us into handling errors properly.
For example, I know an exception is thrown if the table already exists, but with putting everything in main() I thought it would clutter it up too much to catch that exception. Having it in a function can make it easier to show how to handle those errors and explain them in the docs.
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This is probably okay for a hello world app, you can write a separate crud sample if you really want to.
I'm ambivalent about error handling - I think as long as our samples don't silence errors and propagate them to the user then that is enough for a sample.
This sample uses the "raw" gcloud-python Cloud Bigtable
package.