For most cases, you should create local data and use fixtures to load data. However, if you must use live data, I would suggest uploading a new, non-default version of your application. Different versions can share the same datastore, so you can view/test your app against live data.
If you are planning on doing write operations, you can always use the migration tools provided in the latest SDK to create a QA instance of your app with live data. -- Ikai Lan Developer Programs Engineer, Google App Engine Blogger: http://googleappengine.blogspot.com Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/appengine Twitter: http://twitter.com/app_engine On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Barry Hunter <barrybhun...@gmail.com>wrote: > So what you trying to do? > > Actully connect to the live datastore - directly? > > Can use remote_api - need to setup the local machine to use the API > for queries. I dont actully know how hard that is. > > Of course it will make queries much slower, as they have to transfer > over the live internet (and be converted from/to HTTP by code running > on your live app (this code is provided by remote_api) ) > > > On 25 January 2011 16:41, Peter Liu <tinyee...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It takes really long time to download when there's 100k+ entries, and > > when it gets unexpected error code, it stops transferring. Not to > > mention that it's costly and data is not always updated. > > > > On Jan 25, 11:07 pm, Wim den Ouden <wdenou...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> With appcfg.py download_data you can download your data and restore in > >> the local dev. > >> > >> 2011/1/25 Peter Liu <tinyee...@gmail.com>: > >> > >> > Anyway to make dev server use production datastore? > >> > >> > It will be nice when designing new html templates (jsp, etc...) with > >> > real production data. Maybe with read-only to avoid corrupting the > >> > remote datastore. > >> > >> > Anyone tried this? 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-appengine@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 athttp:// > groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > >> > >> -- > >> gr > >> Wim den Ouden > >> Custom applications,https://e-comm.appspot.com/ > >> Free open source E-commerce framework (web) apps, > http://code.google.com/p/relat/ > >> Gae developer tips,http://code.google.com/p/relat/wiki/gaetips > > > > -- > > 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<google-appengine%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > > For more options, visit this group at > http://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-appengine@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. > > -- 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.
