The session handler can just use a single get by keyname/key to load the session, and a single put to save. If you don't have to change the session every request, then put memcache in front of it so you can save on the datastore get.
-mike On Mar 18, 9:36 pm, Patrick Twohig <patr...@namazustudios.com> wrote: > For whatever its' worth, I have HTTP Basic auth implemented in my web > service and it fetches the user's account details from the datastore each > time a request is made and it doesn't seem to be a huge problem. > > > > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Guy Smith <g...@multiniche.org> wrote: > > “If a web application wants to store session data, then it must be > > stored in the DataStore rather than static variables or MemCache.” - > > is that correct? > > > I understand the reasoning behind it – that separate requests in a > > session may go to different servers, which will not have the same > > values in static variables or MemCache, only the DataStore is shared > > between servers. But it is expensive (in developer time and DataStore > > writes), so I’d just like to double check. > > > NB: I have a fair bit of session data – encoding it in the cookie is > > not feasible. > > > -- > > 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-appeng...@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<google-appengine%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > -- > Patrick H. Twohig. > > Namazu Studios > P.O. Box 34161 > San Diego, CA 92163-4161 -- 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-appeng...@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.
