Today there was a GAE SDK 1.4.2 prerelease<http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/downloads/list>. I was quite disappointed that it had no Channel API related updates/improvements in the release notes. Since there is also no official roadmap announced for the Channel API, can we get some unofficial update about the features and improvements coming in the near/distant future?
Here is a short wishlist from me: 1. Batch send method (efficiently fan-out one message to a potentially large number of channels). Moishe said this was planned some time ago. 2. Channel presence (connect/disconnect notifications to the application). This is also being worked on according to Moishe. 3. Charge CPU on channel disconnect time, instead of token creation time. This would allow us to pay for the actual usage, instead of the current fixed 2-hour tokens, which require us to implement complex and imperfect token reuse schemes. Hopefully this shouldn't be too hard to implement given that you are already working on disconnect notifications. 4. Direct access to the lower Channel API layers for non-browser based clients, bypassing the JavaScript long-polling Comet layer. E.g. something like allowing a client to connect via XMPP to channel...@appspotchannel.com using the channel_token as password. Any status updates regarding these or other planned improvements would be appreciated. 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. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
