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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"gcloud.datastore should allow explicit specification of whether the field is indexed","articleBody":"## Summary\n\nRight now, everything is indexed by default (based on the `Value` protobuf's `indexed [default = true]` field). See https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/google-cloud-datastore/blob/v1beta2-rev1-2.1.0/proto/datastore_v1.proto#L129\n\nThis will get crazy expensive. We need to allow people to specify whether a field should be indexed. We should probably also default this to `false`. But that's a bigger question.\n\n---\n## To do\n- [ ] Decide whether to allow explicit indexing or unindexing\n- [ ] Figure out what the syntax will be for specifying indexing\n- [ ] Submit a patch for the feature\n## Options for specifying indexing\n### List of indexed fields\n\nUnless a field is explicitly in the list of indexed fields, the `indexed` property will be set to `False`.\n\n``` python\nentity = ...\nentity.indexed_fields = ['field1', 'field2']\n```\n### List of unindexed fields\n\nIf a field is in this list, it's `indexed` property will be set to `False`. Otherwise it will be left unset (and therefore default to `True` per the protobuf definition.\n\n``` python\nentity = ...\nentity.unindexed_fields = ['field1', 'field2']\n```\n## CC\n\n@proppy @aliafshar \n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/jgeewax","@type":"Person","name":"jgeewax"},"datePublished":"2014-04-21T15:21:06.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":6},"url":"https://github.com/83/google-cloud-python/issues/83"}