gaeutilities has a way for you to build the necessary functionality you seek into your app. While it's still developmental, the project now has a cron utility. To put it basically, it has two parts.
1. An application handler you can plug right into your app.yaml to add tasks using cron syntax. 2. A cron class you can add, and then initialize on any page you want to allow to handle firing off cron tasks. How it works is every time you initialize Cron() in a request, it will check and see if any tasks are scheduled to be run. If so, it will run them. Because urlfetch is still synchronous, it checks the time before and after each task it's running, if 1 (or more) as passed since it's started firing tasks, it stops and continues on with the actual request, leaving the rest of the tasks for the next request. gaeutilities can be found here: http://gaeutilities.appspot.com/ Here's the wiki page with more information on Cron: http://code.google.com/p/gaeutilities/wiki/Cron On Nov 11, 7:17 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > I am writing a GAE tutorial, and I have arrived at a point where I > would like to mention a way to do something regularly (cron-like, if > you will). For my own needs, it is very easy to set up a cron job on a > local Linux box that runs wget every day (or every hour). But this is > not a solution I can propose for my (not very technical) users - it is > not guaranteed that they have access to a Linux/Unix/MacOS box, I > don't want to explain the syntax of chron etc. etc. > > So I was wondering, there should be out there some service (free or > not) that will do exactly this: access a URL regularly. What happens > with the result is not so important - it could be mailed, stored or > thrown away. > > Do you guys know of any such thing? I realize this is part of the > cron-like behavior FAQ, but I can't find an answer. > > thank you, > > Walter --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
