Hi Dave, Great find, yes it seems that the Documents API design is somewhat App Engine un-friendly. I've filed a bug to remedy this.
http://code.google.com/p/gdata-python-client/issues/detail?id=278 My proposed solution, not yet tested, to replace the _DownloadFile method in gdata.docs.service to something like the following def _GetFile(self, uri, file_handle): server_response = self.request('GET', uri) if server_response.status != 200: raise gdata.service.RequestError, {'status': server_response.status, 'reason': server_response.reason, 'body': server_response.read()} file_handle.write(server_response.read()) def _DownloadFile(self, uri, file_path): """Downloads a file. Args: uri: string The full Export URL to download the file from. file_path: string The full path to save the file to. Raises: RequestError: on error response from server. """ f = open(file_path, 'wb') try: self._GetFile(uri, f) except gdata.service.RequestError, e: f.close() raise e f.flush() f.close() I haven't tested this yet but if you are feeling brave feel free to try it out. You could then call _GetFile directly and pass in a StringIO object for your file handle. Happy coding, Jeff On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 6:12 AM, Dave <dabo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm using gdata.docs.service to download a list of a user's > spreadsheets using GetDocumentListFeed. I want to now let the user > select a specific spreadsheet so my app can download its contents, do > some manipulation, and then save a copy of the modified spreadsheet > back to their Google Docs account (with a new filename). > > To grab the contents of their spreadsheet, I thought I could use the > "Download" method on the results of GetDocumentListFeed. > Unfortunately, this method requires a location to write the downloaded > file to, and AppEngine doesn't let its apps write files to disk (or so > I've read). So what is the recommended way to do this? I'd be happy > getting the contents of the file as a data structure in memory, > containing something like csv data. I don't need to deal with XML. Any > suggestions, or pointers to documentation, would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > Dave > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
