Very informative David, thank you! I just have one follow-up question: When you say, serialize, I imagine you mean to break down the object properties into key and value pairs. Would this serialization then be saved as a string? And do I use the same method as you mentioned before (setDataDocument) to store that string to the wavelet? This seems like a great solution to my problem and I appreciate any more help you can give!
Smola On Oct 18, 1:39 pm, David Nesting <da...@fastolfe.net> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Smola <callmesm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I need a way for information my robot gathers to persist. So, let's > > say I want to find a blip and save its ID so I can work with it in the > > future. I don't know how to do that currently. I know how to find > > the ID of a blip, but I do I save it for later use? Or, if I create > > You can either persist your data to the wave itself (e.g. > wavelet.setDataDocument), or, since your robot is certainly implemented > using appengine, use the appengine datastore. > > an object in response to an event, how do I save all of the properties > > > of that object as they are affected by more and more incoming blips? > > Serializing the object and storing it either with the wavelet, or in a > datastore, would seem like fine solutions to that problem. > > > Is the object automatically saved on the server when my robot is added > > to a wave and then stays there the rest of the time? It would seem > > that if waves are to exist forever in my archive that that would take > > up quite a bit of space down the road. > > If you store your state with the wavelet, it stays with the wavelet and > disappears only when the wavelet disappears. Since it's not taking up space > in your own datastore, you don't have to worry about managing it. On the > other hand, if you'd rather store this in your own datastore, you'll need to > clean up your data on your own (the blip_deleted event might be useful), but > yes, I would imagine that this would grow as the number of waves your robot > participates in grows. > > David --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Wave API" group. To post to this group, send email to google-wave-api@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-wave-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-wave-api?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
