[optimusclimb]

Was reading that page. What it specifically says is:

> The size of the blob or None if the blob’s resource has not been loaded from the server.

That's pretty vague imho, because there is no high level overview or tutorial to tell you that you need to explicitly cause the load from the server. Point in fact, the function you need to use is "reload()", and the documentation of this func is "Reload properties from Cloud Storage." To me, the "re" part makes it a bit of a misnomer - as it implies there would have been some sort of initial load in the first place (there is not.)

Imagine if the interface for going to a web page in chrome was: 1. Type the URL in the location bar. 2. Hit "refresh."

[meeks]

To conclude that:

> Google couldn't care less if their customers can figure out how to use their products.

That feels like a pretty strong leap to make from your complaint about using the term "reload" when "load" is better.

I can understand you are providing an example, and perhaps you feel the documentation has many such examples. From personal experience reading extensive documentation, I think you are being slightly unfair in this instance.

If I had to guess, given the speed of development of Google Cloud, it will take some time to get to the level of mature documentation of AWS who has had years of head start.

[optimusclimb]

> That feels like a pretty strong leap to make from your complaint about using the term "reload" when "load" is better.

I never made that leap - you're saying that. I'm saying that GCP docs are all severely lacking in "how to" guides.

API references are not so helpful without an explanation of how you're intended to use them. So, the problem isn't that the function name is "reload()" instead of "load()" - it's that nowhere does it tell you the pattern is to instantiate the object you're interested in (in this case, a Blob), and then you must make a call to retrieve the data from the server before the data you're interested in will show up.

Additionally, my commentary was made after now using many different GCP services - this was just something recently in mind.

[naasking]

> I can understand you are providing an example, and perhaps you feel the documentation has many such examples. From personal experience reading extensive documentation, I think you are being slightly unfair in this instance.

I kind of agree with the other poster. Getting up and running with .NET on flexible instances has been challenging to say the least. The datastore documentation does not give a good overview or introduction to how interact with this system.