Hi Tim, I face the same issue. I can not have the BlobInfo deleted when deleting a gcs file whatever the technique (blobstoreService.delete or gcsService.delete). Have you found a clean way or a workaround that delete both the gcs file and the blobinfo ?
Thanks Dany Le vendredi 12 juillet 2013 08:46:14 UTC+2, Tim Rob a écrit : > > Hi Vinny, > > Thanks for your reaction. > > When you're deleting from GCS, are you using the Java GCS library? Try >> using the function BlobstoreService.delete(blobkey) here: >> https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/java/javadoc/com/google/appengine/api/blobstore/BlobstoreService >> > Yes I use the Google Cloud Storage (GCS) Client Library for Java. > I tried using the BlobStoreService.delete(blobKey) call but that didn't > work. The thing is that after saving the file we only store the GCS file > name (not the blobk Key). There is a BlobStoreService.createGsBlobKey > method to recreate the BlobKey from the GCS filename, but when using that > blobKey to the delete method it will delete the GCS file, but the Blob > Viewer entry is still visible (giving a server error when opened). > > > On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 1:41 AM, Tim Rob <t...@appcoders.nl> wrote: >> >>> For me it would be best if the file would not appear in the Blob Viewer >>> at all, we're using GCS and not the blobstore. But it would also be fine if >>> we're only charged once for the storage costs. >>> >> >> I would bet that internally, App Engine needs to record the uploads as >> blobs (and also show them in the blob viewer) so it can do blob >> manipulations on them (for instance, ImageService and getServingUrl both >> take BlobKey references). >> > Even without a Blob Viewer entry it's possible to call any API method > (like getServingUrl) that requires a BlobKey is possible using the > BlobStoreService.createGsBlobKey to create the blobKey. We're already using > this for images only stored in GCS. > > >> Being charged twice is clearly an error though. Are you sure you're being >> charged twice over, or is it just that the quota is shown twice? You may >> want to file an issue in the tracker >> https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/list . >> > Yes I'm almost sure. The quota is showed once. But the stored data appears > in App Engine under "Blobstore Stored Data" and at Billing in my API > project where GCS is enabled (once). I would expect the Blobstore Stored > Data in App Engine should not show any data usage, since all data is stored > in our GCS account. This was already the case before, until we started > using the blobstoreService.createUploadUrl call to upload files directly > into GCS. > Before this I was using the now deprecated Files API. Another reason to > choose for blobstoreService.createUploadUrl was to prevent streaming large > binary blob data through small/low memory App Engine instances. > I will file an issue (unless you think I'm missing something). > > Thanks, Tim > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
