On 21/09/2009, Bemmu <bemmu....@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm thinking out loud here in case someone has better ideas on how I > should be doing this. > > I have an OpenSocial application with a Python App Engine back-end, > and would like to make a copy of it to use for development, so that > users don't experience strange problems when I make mistakes. I notice > that there is versioning available, but I would like a separate data > store too. > > I will need to add a separate app on App Engine for this. I have > millions of entities in my data store, so I wonder what would be the > most convenient way to copy them over to the new development app? > There must be something easier than writing specific copying code > myself.
Do you really need all the entities in a dev version? Can't you just have a more specific sampling of the data? > > Then I will need to create separate apps on the social networks as > well, the current production app that is open to the public, then a > new development one that is private to me and uses the different app > engine app as back end. > > Every time I want to release a new feature, I will need to copy over > the code from development side to production side, and try not to > forget changing client-side reference to the back-end to point to the > correct place. Use a config file - so you never copy the config back and forth. (it stays specific to the app its in). SVN (or other similar VCS's ;) and branches can help you maintain too branches of the code and merge changes back. Or make the app auto detect which version it is and react apprioatelly - then no code change between the two. (You could develop with one local app, and then just change app.yaml when deploying to either deploy the code to the dev app or the live app) > > Does this sound like the right approach? > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
