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Datasets: beginTransaction

Requires authorization

Begin a new transaction. Try it now .

Request

HTTP request

POST https://www.googleapis.com/datastore/v1beta2/datasets/datasetId/beginTransaction

Parameters

Parameter name Value Description
Path parameters
datasetId string Identifies the dataset.

Authorization

This request requires authorization with at least one of the following scopes ( read more about authentication and authorization ).

Scope
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/datastore
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.email

Request body

In the request body, supply data with the following structure:

{
  "isolationLevel": string
}
Property name Value Description Notes
isolationLevel string The transaction isolation level. Either snapshot or serializable . The default isolation level is snapshot isolation , which means that another transaction may not concurrently modify the data that is modified by this transaction. Optionally, a transaction can request to be made serializable which means that another transaction cannot concurrently modify the data that is read or modified by this transaction.

Acceptable values are:
  • " SERIALIZABLE ":
  • " SNAPSHOT ":

Response

If successful, this method returns a response body with the following structure:

{
  "header": {
    "kind": "datastore#responseHeader"
  },
  "transaction": bytes
}
Property name Value Description Notes
header. kind string Identifies what kind of resource this is. Value: the fixed string "datastore#responseHeader" .
transaction bytes The transaction identifier (always present).

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