Thanks for the tips Ikai! I'll try stuffing the parameters into a post and I'll make it a servlet instead.
When I've made the changes I'll post my work for others to inspect and use as they wish. Thanks, Erich On May 17, 2:04 pm, "Ikai L (Google)" <ika...@google.com> wrote: > Use a POST - the 2000 character limit is there because some browsers can't > handle URLs that long. It might also be easier to write your code in a > servlet and not a JSP. Can you post it for people to look at? > > > > On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Erich <erich.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi All. > > > I'm completely illiterate in Python, so I've created a workaround in > > Java to upload Java Object to the datastore. > > > I have a deployed JSP which receives data and uses reflection and > > various magic to take the incoming URL, create the objects dynamically > > and add them to the store. I've built my uploader and receiver to take > > advantage of bulk operations to save URL and datastore calls. > > > There are some serious drawbacks to this method: > > 1 - The maximum URL length before a 414 error is 2000. This really > > limits how many objects can be passed per URL. > > 2 - I haven't figure out a way to do this using securely. (without > > exposing the JSP publicly) > > > The good things about it: > > 1 - All Java (no installing a second google app program and mucking > > around in Python) > > 2 - No need to create intermediate files on your system. Plain Object - > > > Datastore > > > I would like to improve this if possible. Does anyone know how the > > python uploader works? Is a special URL or connection I can make to > > pass more data or do it securely? > > > Thanks, > > Erich > > > -- > > 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-j...@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > google-appengine-java+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<google-appengine-java%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en. > > -- > Ikai Lan > Developer Relations, Google App Engine > Twitter:http://twitter.com/ikai > Delicious:http://delicious.com/ikailan > > ---------------- > Google App Engine links: > Blog:http://googleappengine.blogspot.com > Twitter:http://twitter.com/app_engine > Reddit:http://www.reddit.com/r/appengine > > -- > 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-j...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > google-appengine-java+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en. -- 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-j...@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.
