On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 9:39 PM, Wilson MacGyver <wmacgy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is more of a design question, so I thought this would be more
> suited here instead of stackoverflow.
>
> I have a bunch of files in google storage. I want to track the access
> to those files. So one approach
> I came up with is, mark all files as private, gave GAE read only
> access. and the url pattern to access
> them is /{customerId}/filename
>
> this hits GAE, which check to make sure the customerId is valid, and
> then request the file from google sotrage,
> and return it. The part I'm not sure how to handle is to output a
> daily stats. I want to be able to produce
> a daily summary of customer X access Y number of files yesterday.
>
> I've only been able to come up with 3 approaches.
>
> 1: keep a counter in datastore, which is yucky,Curious, why is it yucky? If worried about performance, defer the updates using the task queue. (so the actual increment is done by a task after the actual request has finished to the user) > so implement a sharded > counter to track this and update > the datastore. Are you really expecting these files to be read so much by each user that a sharded counter is needed? Sounds like over thinking the problem :) > > 2: use app_cfg to download daily raw http request log, and parse it myself There is also a LogService API for accessing the logs from within App Engine itself https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/logservice/ > > 3: setup a server, so each time a request comes in, an async UrlFetch > GET request fires off to > a remote server say on ec2, then I'll have raw http request log to process > daily > > None of these seem like great ideas. Any suggestions on other approches? > > -- > Omnem crede diem tibi diluxisse supremum. > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
