Sargis,

Thanks for answering -- I've already tried this a few times.  My current
APP.YAML is included above, is this incorrectly specifying the SWF as a
static file?

Cheers,

Tim

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Sargis Dallakyan <food....@gmail.com>wrote:

>
> You'll need to tell GEA to server swf as a static file.
>
> http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/gettingstarted/staticfiles.html
>
> For an example see this page that I created:
> http://food-prints.appspot.com/static/html/calculator.html
>
> Please let me know if you need more information.
> Sargis
>
> On Mar 12, 3:20 am, Tim Bull <tim.b...@binaryplex.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm new to Google Appengine and Python programming and I've been
> > having a problem that's just plain driving me nuts!
> >
> > I want to implement a RESTful style API, such that when I enter:
> >
> > http://<url>/trend/<trendname>
> >
> > A page loads and displays information about the trend.
> >
> > I've already successfully implemented Open Flash Chart 2 and SWFObject
> > for a "basic" root URL.
> >
> > e.g. http://<url>/somepage?parameter=xyz
> >
> > Some of the logic is inside Django templates, but the end result of
> > the relevant code outputed is this.
> >
> >   <script type="text/javascript" src="js/swfobject.js"></script>
> >   <script type="text/javascript">
> >   swfobject.embedSWF(
> >   "OFC.swf", "graph",
> >   "450", "450", "9.0.0", "expressInstall.swf",
> >   { "data-file": "api/graph/LISTALLTIME" });
> >   </script>
> >
> > So far so good.  The relevant "bit" here is the "OFC.swf" reference
> > which is the Open Flash Chart 2 SWF object we are executing.
> >
> > The problem comes when I move to a "dynamic" URL.
> >
> > Here's some of my APP.YAML and the WSGIApplication call.
> >
> > handlers:
> > - url: /OFC.swf
> >   static_files: flash/OFC.swf
> >   upload: flash/OFC.swf
> >
> > - url: /.*
> >   script: twendly.py
> >
> > application = webapp.WSGIApplication(
> >                                      [('/', MainPage),
> >                                       (r'/trend/(.*)', GraphTrend),
> >                                       (r'/api/graph/(.*)/(.*)',
> > GraphTrendValues),
> >                                       (r'/api/graph/(.*)',
> > GraphValues),
> > ], debug = True)
> >
> > So when I call http://<appname>/trend/<trendname> everything seems to
> > work as it should and I end up with this in my HTML
> >
> >   <script type="text/javascript" src="js/swfobject.js"></script>
> >   <script type="text/javascript">
> >   swfobject.embedSWF(
> >   "/OFC.swf", "graph",
> >   "450", "450", "9.0.0", "expressInstall.swf",
> >   { "data-file": "api/graph/LIST1HR/watchmen" });
> >   </script>
> >
> > Looks good BUT it it's not locating the OFC.swf file successfully.
> >
> > This has bugged me for days and tonight I figured I get rid of the
> > "trend" directory and do it as a top level URI e.g. change my
> > WSGI.Application call to this instead:
> >
> > application = webapp.WSGIApplication(
> >                                      [('/', MainPage),
> >                                       (r'/(.*)', GraphTrend),
> > <==== NOTE CHANGE ON THIS LINE
> >                                       (r'/api/graph/(.*)/(.*)',
> > GraphTrendValues),
> >                                       (r'/api/graph/(.*)',
> > GraphValues),
> > ], debug = True)
> >
> > And call http://<appname>/<trendname>
> >
> > Everything works! Graph loads etc. - this all makes me think it's got
> > something to do with relative URL paths, but I would of expected /
> > OFC.SWF to load it from the root where the APP.YAML is redirecting.
> >
> > For reasons of elegance (and not getting stumped) I really want to
> > implement it with the "trend" key word as part of the URI, but this
> > seems to be a no go at the moment.
> >
> > I'm guessing I need a different configuration for my APP.YAML, but I'm
> > really stuck.
> >
> > Can anyone help me out?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Tim
>
> >
>

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