Hi, yeah maybe that's the best way to go - then I can run a scheduled task every two hours or so per game as a back up just in case,
Thanks! On Dec 14, 9:42 am, ping2r...@gmail.com wrote: > I am not expert of task queues, but looking at ur requirment may be u can > leave the future task at player's browser. > Run a javascript timer at the browser and whenver it timeout inform the > server(ajax) and tell the player too. Timer can be set for player's turn and > while he is waiting for other player. And ofcourse then u can run task(server > side) every fix time to clean games(to set game status as finished/abandoned > etc) which have been crashed/browser crash or people have left without > clicking proper buttons on ur app. > May be it will save someof ur cpu and tasks count/billing :). > > Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark <mar...@gmail.com> > > Sender: google-appengine@googlegroups.com > Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 06:28:30 > To: Google App Engine<google-appengine@googlegroups.com> > Reply-To: google-appengine@googlegroups.com > Subject: [google-appengine] Delete or unschedule a task? > > Hi, > > Is there a way to delete or unschedule a task? I've got a multiplayer > game. Whenever a player starts their turn, I schedule a task for now + > n minutes, where n is the total time they have to perform their move. > When the task executes, I check if they have performed the move, if > not, I cancel their turn. But my queue will end up having many > unnecessary tasks in it: > > Round limit = 5 minutes > queued-task: game=abc, check at 5:00pm > queued-task: game=abc, check at 5:01pm > ... > > As each player starts their turn, all the tasks pile on as above. > Ideally I only need one scheduled task in the queue at any given time. > When a player starts their turn, I could flush the queue of all > previous scheduled tasks, which are no longer needed. > > There doesn't appear to be a way to do this, named tasks block > insertion of tasks with the same name, I was hoping to use that as a > trick to find and remove or overwrite the tasks with the same name > (using the game key as a unique identifier)? > > Thanks > > -- > 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.
