I'm guessing you're just getting your app off the ground and you're referring to some test data you want to play with?
You have datastore data available to your application after your application puts some in there itself. So you'd have your application running on the server (local development, or the full production google setup), and forming instances of db Models and calling the various datastore operations on those models is what puts your data into the datastore. This is done through the logic of your application. For example, someone hits your link for "registration", which gives them a form in their browser to fill out personal data. When they hit submit your browser hits the app engine server with a particularly formed link. The app server uses that link to figure out which "view" handler to call and sends the form data to that handler. The View handler then takes that data and puts it into a db.Model (e.g., User). Then the view handler calls "put" on that data model instance, and at that point the data is in the datastore. if you just want to make some simulation data to play around with viewing, you could write up a straight python script that uses your own data models to populate the datastore for you. I followed mahmouds instructions here and they work great for my needs: http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine/browse_thread/thread/2667c30d1726722e/a16ce7be0ab57c59?hl=en&lnk=gst&q=python+script+load+data#a16ce7be0ab57c59 I'd suggest you just work in the development server locally on your PC first. On Mar 19, 1:57 pm, Nora <noorhanab...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Hello, > As I haven't used data stores before, I am unable to imagine how it is > going to behave:) I have some text files and I want to store its > contents in datastores. Do I load the datastore at the beginning and > then upload my application and use the data in the datastore from > there? Or do we fill the datastore up every time my applicaiton gets a > request for it? Is the data saved in a certain file so when the > application is uploaded on the google server, this file is transfered > on the server and I start to use it from there? > > Thank you very much, > N. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
