google-cloud v0.40.0

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⚠️ Breaking Changes

Bigtable will return a Buffer instead of base64 with decode: false

Issue: #1526
PR: #1556

Previously when setting the decode option to false, we would return a base64 encoded string. Now we return a Buffer instance instead.

Before

var bufferData = new Buffer('hello!');

row.save('family:column', bufferData, function(err) {
  if (err) {
    // Error handling omitted.
  }

  row.get('family:column', { decode: false }, function(err, data) {
    if (err) {
      // Error handling omitted.
    }

    // A base64 string is returned.
    var returnedData = data.family.column[0].value;
    // typeof returnedData === 'string'

    // Manually convert the base64 string back to a Buffer.
    var returnedBufferData = new Buffer(bufferData, 'base64');
  });
});

After

var bufferData = new Buffer('hello!');

row.save('family:column', bufferData, function(err) {
  if (err) {
    // Error handling omitted.
  }

  row.get('family:column', { decode: false }, function(err, data) {
    if (err) {
      // Error handling omitted.
    }

    // A Buffer is returned.
    var returnedData = data.family.column[0].value;
    // Buffer.isBuffer(returnedData) === true
  });
});

Features

• BigQuery (#1422, #1564): Automatically assign record type for nested schemas.
• Bigtable (#1526, #1556): Return Buffer objects with decode: false.

Fixes

• Bigtable, Datastore, Language, Logging, Pub/Sub (#1543, #1544): Upgrade gRPC dependency, which addresses a memory leak issue.
• Bigtable, Datastore, Language, Logging, Pub/Sub (#1418, #1563): Automatically update metadata on an object after calling getMetadata().
• Bigtable (#1554, #1555): Properly format the filter key when getting a range of rows.