Controling eventual AppEngine datastory consistency during testing

Question

I have an AppEngine app written in Go, and I'm trying to improve my tests.

Part of the tests that I need to run are a series of create, update, delete queries on the same object. However given that the datastore is eventually consistent (these aren't child objects), I am currently stuck using a time.Sleep(time.Second * 5) to give the simulated datastore in the SDK enough time for consistency to propagate.

This results in tests that take a long time to run. How can I force something more like strong consistency for tests without rewriting my code to use ancestor queries?

Answer 1

Have a look at the dev_server arguments. You will see there is an option for setting the consistency policy.

 --datastore_consistency_policy {consistent,random,time}
                        the policy to apply when deciding whether a datastore
                        write should appear in global queries (default: time)

Notice the default is time, you want consistent

Answer 2

It's been a while, but the method that I found that works well is to call the context as follows:

c, err := aetest.NewContext(&aetest.Options{StronglyConsistentDatastore: true})