How to fix error: A project ID is required for thi

Question

I'm trying to insert data to Google Datastore from AppEngine and I'm getting an error:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: A project ID is required for this service but could not be determined from the builder or the environment.  Please set a project ID using the builder.
    at com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkArgument(Preconditions.java:92)
    at com.google.cloud.ServiceOptions.<init>(ServiceOptions.java:324)
    at com.google.cloud.datastore.DatastoreOptions.<init>(DatastoreOptions.java:85)
    at com.google.cloud.datastore.DatastoreOptions.<init>(DatastoreOptions.java:32)
    at com.google.cloud.datastore.DatastoreOptions$Builder.build(DatastoreOptions.java:75)
    at com.google.cloud.datastore.DatastoreOptions.defaultInstance(DatastoreOptions.java:123)

Here's my code:

Datastore datastore = DatastoreOptions.defaultInstance().service();     
             KeyFactory keyFactory = datastore.newKeyFactory().kind("keyKind"); 
             Key key = keyFactory.newKey("keyName"); 
             Entity entity = Entity.builder(key) 
                 .set("name", "John Doe") 
                 .set("age", 30) 
                 .set("access_time", DateTime.now()) 
                 .build(); 
             datastore.put(entity); 

How do I fix this error?

Answer 1

Are you running AE standard or AE Flexible?

Make sure you have the App Engine api jar in your classpath (WEB-INF/lib directory).

Answer 2

In my case the next code is working:

    BigQuery bigquery = BigQueryOptions.newBuilder().setProjectId("XXXXX")
            .setCredentials(
                    ServiceAccountCredentials.fromStream(new FileInputStream("key.json"))
            ).build().getService();

I set the projectId in the builder.