Separate in your mind the Blobstore (place were data can be put) and the Blobstore API (which is a programming API builtin to the GAE service layer and can be used with GCS).
The Blobstore is a nonstarter. It is deprectated. It will go away. The question you want to ask is: What is the best way to put files in GCS? My team just finished moving our code from using the Blobstore API to directly using the GCS API. The Blobstore API is annoying in that the (java) development server always stores submitted files in a local fake blobstore implementation, not GCS. There’s no simple way to get a direct link to the local file in the blobstore except via the images api, which only works on images of certain types. And the design is somewhat poor - if an error occurs during the blobstore api callback (say, a datastore timeout), you can ‘leak’ blobs. The docs for the GCS API are so-so (especially the construction of signed upload urls) but at the end of the day the system is much simpler, more robust, and there’s no conditional logic that differs running dev server vs production GAE. Yes, you can use the image service with GCS. We stopped doing so and now use imgix.com. There are plusses and minuses to each. Jeff On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 3:09 PM, Deepesh Mathuria <deepeshmathu...@gmail.com > wrote: > Okay so you are suggesting to use cloud bucket, could you tell me the > advantages it will have over blobstore. And also could you tell me if > Images API work is compatible with cloud storage bucket. > > On Thursday, February 25, 2016 at 4:46:16 PM UTC+5:30, Deepesh Mathuria > wrote: >> >> I am creating a web application which allows user to post text content >> along with file uploads. I've built my entire webapp on cloud endpoints, >> but I'm having problem with the file upload part integration. I know it can >> be done with blobstore but I want to know how - I've not had any experience >> working with blobstore. >> > -- > 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 https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/dba6407f-fa79-4108-a46f-f79dc38f077a%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/dba6407f-fa79-4108-a46f-f79dc38f077a%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/CADK-0uhW9D1xbbguztJsp6__2achSQsHD-yO69iby3%2B0010Hmg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
