it is not the storage that is the problem but the processing of images greater than 1 megabyte. You cannot resize an image that is larger than about 1400x1400 pixels.
On Jun 15, 11:16 am, Ross M Karchner <rosskarch...@gmail.com> wrote: > Have you looked at the Blobstore API? > > http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/blobstore/overview.html#... > > Users can upload files up to 2GB, and the Image API can *load* images > from Blobstore. The only limitation is that the resulting image has to > be less than 1MB. > > > > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Kelly A <kelly.j.ander...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I am sure that no one on the App Engine team can comment on this but I > > just have to talk about it to get it off my chest cause it is a > > constant pain in my butt. > > > Many modern jpeg images will decompress to sizes over 1 megabyte, even > > those taken with the cheapest of point and shoot digital cameras. So > > people uploading images to your application that are few hundred > > kilobytes are too big to be resized to a thumbnail because when the > > image functions decompresses the jpeg it is greater than 1 megabyte > > and blamo! You get the too big error and your whole application re- > > initializes. I cannot begin to communicate how much of a bummer this > > is. > > > I know that the product road map has and entry for "Raise request/ > > response size limits for some APIs" would this address this issue? If > > so, might we see it this year? If not can some one put some thought > > into how this might be a priority? > > > Thanks for listening. > > -=Kelly > > > p.s. I know I can implement a client side solution and am doing such, > > but I am not particularly fond of having to add more flash components > > to my site and I will never use a Java applet in a web page. > > > -- > > 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 > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. -- 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.
