Hie thanks a lot!!!
So, how about starting a corn job every day say at 00:00 and if time consumption goes more than 30 sec than scheduling tasks to complete leftovers. I have another question here: The data model for this is: BloodDonor_name, blood_group, is_active, active_date so query to find donors to be activated ids gonna be: select BloodDonor where is_active == false && active_date == <today's date> and update gonna be setting such donors: is_active=true and active_date = null. Any idea how many such entries is safe to consider will be processed within 30 secs ? Thankx and Regards Vik Founder www.sakshum.com www.sakshum.blogspot.com On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Didier Durand <durand.did...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi Vik, > > > I would also go with cron job in your case. > > Concerning the 30s limit, it depends on your requirements in > computing: > > a) you can and should probably schedule via api an independent task > for each separate donor who needs to be processed after your query > (via cron) told you who needs to be processed today. > > b) then,for each individual task, if it lasts more than 30s then you > need to do what I described earlier (i.e pause the current run after > storing its context and restart it in a new task) > > regards > didier > > On Oct 25, 12:35 pm, Vik <vik....@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hie > > > > Hmm, so in my case I always know in advance that I need to activate few > > blood donors every day which were deactivated yesterday. > > > > So, this qualifies for cron jobs. Isn't it ? However, does this 30s limit > > applies here as well? > > > > Thankx and Regards > > > > Vik > > Founderwww.sakshum.comwww.sakshum.blogspot.com > > > > On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Didier Durand <durand.did...@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > I see different purposes for the 2: > > > > > - cron tasks are the tasks I always want to do for sure > > > - tasks via API are tasks that I schedule programmatically when needed > > > and triggered by event that I can't predict in advance. > > > > > I see personally 2 other purposes for API tasks: > > > a) when I run a task and it comes close to the 30s limit, I pause > > > it, serialize its context and schedule a task with this context. When > > > the task starts, it's in fact a restart with another 30s credit for > > > running > > > b) I also tasks in context of transactions if I want to be sure that > > > the action of the task is done (i.e datastore writes) even if the > > > transactions fails -> for example, store errors in datastore for > > > later analysis for a failing transaction / program, etc. > > > > > regards > > > didier > > > > > On Oct 25, 6:23 am, Vik <vik....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hie Thanks for the response. > > > > > > I am confused a bit. If cron job does the scheduling then what Task > Queue > > > > does? > > > > > > Thankx and Regards > > > > > > Vik > > > > Founderwww.sakshum.comwww.sakshum.blogspot.com > > > > > > On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Didier Durand < > durand.did...@gmail.com > > > >wrote: > > > > > > > Hi Vik, > > > > > > > Tasks scheduled via cron.xml is the way I would go: > > > > >http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/config/cron.html > > > > > > > I would schedule a task every minute, make a query on the deadline > for > > > > > donors and then do what has to be done. > > > > > > > didier > > > > > > > On Oct 24, 7:11 pm, Vik <vik....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > Hie Guys > > > > > > > > Our application manages a list of blood donors. Time to time > these > > > blood > > > > > > donors are unreachable so the administrators can mark such blood > > > donors > > > > > as > > > > > > inactive. > > > > > > > > However, these blood donors should be active again after 1 day > > > > > > automatically. How should we achieve this? ?In regular J2EE apis > we > > > can > > > > > > write scheduler classes to do the same. > > > > > > What is the option in GAE? Are there any limitations? > > > > > > > > I went through a bit and feel like task queues are the way. But I > am > > > not > > > > > > sure? 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