BaseEntity.toPb method is not public

[vikkyrk]

There are cases where users want to convert com.google.cloud.datastore.Entity objects to native protobuf Entity objects (com.google.datastore.v1.Entity). For ex: while using Cloud Dataflow DatastoreIO, which only works with protobuf Entities. It would be nice to expose the toPb method by making it public.

[garrettjonesgoogle]

Could you give a link to the code for Cloud Dataflow DatastoreIO?

[vikkyrk]

@garrettjonesgoogle relevant files are here https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/DataflowJavaSDK/tree/master/sdk/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/dataflow/sdk/io/datastore

[yihanzhen]

The feature request is added to the backlog. The issue will be closed but is linked in the backlog and can continue to be used for comment and discussion.