Thanks Baz. Vince, I hit your demo site and just entered a path like /gaevfs/mypic or /gaevfs/images/mypic, then selected a local small photo. On submitting the form, received the 500 error...perhaps the photo had spaces in the name?
On Oct 22, 3:10 pm, Vince Bonfanti <vbonfa...@gmail.com> wrote: > You were unable to upload a small photo on my demo site, or in your > development environment? I just successfully uploaded an image to the > demo site, which you can download from here: > > http://gaevfs.appspot.com/gaevfs/images/ > > Yes, the images get stored in "blocks" of 1MB or less. GaeVFS > implements a virtual file system, so you refer to the file using URL > links, just as you would for a static file. For example, here's an > image I just uploaded: > > http://gaevfs.appspot.com/gaevfs/images/img4.jpg > > The GaeVfsServlet handles both upload and download, and demonstrates > how this is done: > > http://code.google.com/p/gaevfs/source/browse/trunk/src/com/newatlant... > > The GaeVfsServlet also handles setting the content type for the response. > > Vince > > > > On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Diana Cruise <diana.l.cru...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Vince, I was unable to upload small photos...getting error code 500! > > > What is the basic principle behind this solution? It appears you are > > storing the file in datastore in increments of 1M or less...along the > > lines of what Raphael was getting at. How do you display a list of > > images from the datastore on a webpage? > > > On Oct 22, 1:33 pm, Vince Bonfanti <vbonfa...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Diana, > > >> I've created GaeVFS to solve this problem: > > >> http://code.google.com/p/gaevfs/ > > >> You can view a demonstration here: > > >> http://gaevfs.appspot.com/ > > >> Note that the current released version (0.3) will only upload about > >> 2.0MB before timing out; the latest code in SVN will support the full > >> 10.0MB allowed by Google App Engine. > > >> There's a feature on the roadmap called "Service for storing and > >> serving large files," but there's apparently no additional information > >> available on this feature: > > >> http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/roadmap.html > > >> Vince > > >> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Diana Cruise <diana.l.cru...@gmail.com> > >> wrote: > > >> > What options do I have in GAE to allow Users to upload, store, and > >> > view media (photos, video, audio, etc) from my within my application? > > >> > Is there a special data type in datastore that would be used to store > >> > media? If I store a media item in datastore then how do I display it > >> > to the User? In a regular app server, I would do this as a static > >> > file reference where I first transfer the data from the database to a > >> > file accessible under webroot (if it is not already present). But in > >> > GAE the application can NOT create files in the static area due to > >> > permissions...so is there another technique to accomplish this? > > >> > Would videos best be served indirectly via youtube? If so, how do I > >> > know they will NOT be removed prematurely by youtube? > > >> > Thanks.- Hide quoted text - > > >> - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine for Java" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine-java@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine-java+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
