[google-appengine] Re: Why Google AppEngine sucks

>An email address or a form to submit issues, or an IRC channel would give more confidence Appengine Has WAY better support than any other Google product. If you post to this list server Nick , Jason, and Jeff are good about responding. Adsense, and Webmasters has awful support. And Adwords

[google-appengine] Re: a try-catch problem

If an exception is raised in a try block, the rest of the block is skipped and the except block is executed. (This would probably better in the python group, or, since this has nothing to do with App Engine, an entirely different python group.) On Sep 25, 9:56 am, kevin wu wrote: > I have a que

[google-appengine] Re: Why Google AppEngine sucks

On Sep 26, 7:51 am, Rob wrote: > Well,  unless it's a maintenance Tuesday when you appear on Oprah then > you'll wish you were on EC2 and could roll out a couple of extra app > servers :-) Touche! An apt point. The current frequent planned maintenance is a nuisance, but we warn customers ahead o

[google-appengine] ereporter

Anybody has a clear example of how to use the ereporter? I've added a Django middleware class to process_exception and I do get called. Then I call logging.exception() with several different things (all tuples) and nothing yet. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/elias/Desktop/Goog

[google-appengine] Re: Why Google AppEngine sucks

Did you write the article? I'm a PHP Lamp guy, Java isn't bad, Python is a complete mystery to me, but I'm writing in it... Though errors because I haven't indented a line correctly drives me insane. I'm not having reliability problems. That's what error handling is for. -Original Messa

[google-appengine] Re: Why Google AppEngine sucks

I am not struggling. I really like the idea of GAE. I would be happy to have reliable automatically-clustered web applications. The only problem is that it's not as reliable as I would like. Any request might fail at any point, and that fades the initial shine of GAE. On Sep 24, 9:04 pm, "Brandon

[google-appengine] Sending mail

I've got a problem and am looking for suggestions. Our GAE app sends email. In fact, one could say that the success of the application depends on clickthrough from those emails to the application. The problem is, with the limitations on sending SMTP messages using GAE (from docs: "For security

[google-appengine] Re: Upload data to development server

Hello again rc, Apologies, it seems I was too hasty in my reply. Nick has pointed out that we do in fact document how to upload data into the development server. Please see: http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/tools/uploadingdata.html#Loading_Data_Into_the_Development_Server Thank you,

[google-appengine] Re: Poor app performance: periods of very high latency

Hi Jeff Could I suggest that you add a test to the system monitor that tests/ monitors that startup of a django stack as suggested http://groups.google.com.au/group/google-appengine/browse_thread/thread/f582bef25951620b# T On Sep 26, 4:36 am, "Jeff S (Google)" wrote: > Hi all, > > Thank you fo

[google-appengine] Re: Downloading pdf

Acrobat comes back and says "The file is damaged and could not be repaired". If I skip the security checking and serve the file through a self.redirect('downloads/filename.pdf'') Acrobat has no problem with it, that is how I conclude that the file itself is OK but the encoding is screw

[google-appengine] How to use the Python bulkloader for Java apps

I've written up a blog post describing how to use the Python bulkloader to load data into Java apps: http://blog.notdot.net/2009/9/Advanced-Bulk-Loading-Part-5-Bulk-Loading-for-Java -- Nick Johnson, Developer Programs Engineer, App Engine Google Ireland Ltd. :: Registered in Dublin, Ireland, Regi

[google-appengine] Re: Poor app performance: periods of very high latency

Hi all, Thank you for all of the detailed reports. We've made some changes which should have improved the deadline exception situation, especially when related to a large number of imports when spinning up a new instance of an app. Since the fix has gone out we've been closely monitoring these ap

[google-appengine] Re: Why Google AppEngine sucks

Well, unless it's a maintenance Tuesday when you appear on Oprah then you'll wish you were on EC2 and could roll out a couple of extra app servers :-) I think you express a balanced view point, GAE has some severe limitations that make it unsuitable for a large variety of applications. EC2 is

[google-appengine] Re: Dramatic increase in api cpu usage.

No it hasn't been resolved or explained. I'm still experiencing much higher api_cpu values than previously.Still waiting for an explanation or a suggestion of possible cause. On Sep 25, 8:04 pm, Stephen wrote: > On Sep 9, 10:50 am, "Nick Johnson (Google)" > wrote: > > > Hi, > > Can those of

[google-appengine] Re: Porting from AppEngine Data Store to Standalone/AWS S3 and back

I posted the main code up here, http://pastebin.com/f2bbb3cda, feel free to do what you please with it. This code suits my very limited needs and should be simple enough for anyone to grok. It could be useful to turn the properties into real properties with setters and getters, but I didn't need

[google-appengine] Child Objects and Relationships (JDO)

Hi, I created a relationship similar to the one given here. Suppose fetched an *Employee*** entity from datastore, now, how to get * Employee*'s *ContactInfo* entity? I tries using *employee.myC

[google-appengine] Re: ghs.google.com and all relative ip address were blocked by GFW(Great Fire Wall) in China

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Jouy wrote: > > Help us! > > Google , help us please! I do not see how anything could be done about it. If the bastards want to do such things, not much can be done about it from the outside, as just adding more IP's they will just continue to block them. Best

[google-appengine] Re: Dramatic increase in api cpu usage.

On Sep 9, 10:50 am, "Nick Johnson (Google)" wrote: > Hi, > Can those of you who are experiencing elevated CPU recently please supply > your app IDs (either in response to the thread or via email), along with the > URLs that appear to be affected (if applicable)? > > Thanks, > > Nick Johnson I

[google-appengine] Re: Open Letter to Ryan Barrett and the AppEngine Team regarding "high availability"

On Sep 16, 7:51 am, ryan wrote: > On Sep 15, 7:09 pm, Stephen wrote: > > > On Sep 16, 12:04 am, ryan wrote: > > > > (of course, as you mention, we can always > > > improve the ways we communicate so that you know we're aware of a > > > problem and do plan to work on it eventually.) > > > How

[google-appengine] Re: is there a Python client library reference somewhere?

Thanks for your time. g. On Sep 25, 5:01 am, "Nick Johnson (Google)" wrote: > Hi Graham, > You'll probably have more luck asking this on the GData groups; the Python > GData library runs on App Engine, but is otherwise unrelated. > > -Nick Johnson > > On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 4:24 AM, Graham Cha

[google-appengine] Re: Indexes still 'Building'

Hi Szczepan, These indexes were in fact stuck, I've taken this discussion into direct email since this is related to this app's large number of indexes. Thanks for reporting :-) -Jeff On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 4:41 AM, Szczepan wrote: > > Thanks Jeff, > > I was able to vacuum the indexes, waited

[google-appengine] Re: source code for my application on GAE

no. gae doesn't even takes your source code. when you deploy, SDK upload compiled binaries not source files ! On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 12:08 PM, ppraveen wrote: > > Hi all, > > I had written an app on the GAE platform. Unfortunately, I had not > done a backup of the source code and I have lost it

[google-appengine] Not able to view stats on applications

Hi everyone, I have an application that is running and working properly, but has been getting some '403 over quota' errors. When i try to view the stats on the application by clicking 'Dashboard' from the google app engine launcher, I am taken to https://appengine.google.com/start, where I am to

[google-appengine] Turn off cache when session is enable

Hello I work on eclipse with gae plugin and when I set true in appengine-web.xml file then, if session starts I can't see changes on modified class. Reload page has no effect, but if I set off session then changes are visible immediately. I have turned off browser cache. Is there any way to tur

[google-appengine] Datastore inequality query

Hi, I have a query which is parsed from a string, the query's syntax is correct ( i think) but it refuses to filter a double value, this is the query generated by the parser; SELECT FROM [class name here] WHERE GrandParentID == GPID && name == 'temp' && value > criteria PARAMETERS Long GPID, D

[google-appengine] how to delete indexes with java SDK

The indexes required by my app was not automatically added. So I added them in the datastore-indexes-auto.xml and deployed my app. However this has only led to me having three different entities on the same table, each holding different indexes. What I want to do is to remove the two entities that

[google-appengine] DatastoreNeedIndexException, but index present and serving

Im trying to perform this query: Query query = pm.newQuery(ListStore.class); query.setFilter("user == userParam"); query.setOrdering("listPosition ASC"); query.declareParameters("long userParam"); List listStoreLists = (List) query.execute (user); My index looks like this: ListStore listPositio

[google-appengine] Datastore Key ID Key Name

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[google-appengine] source code for my application on GAE

Hi all, I had written an app on the GAE platform. Unfortunately, I had not done a backup of the source code and I have lost it. Is there any way I can retrieve it back? I am the only developer/admin for the app. Thanks, Praveen. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received

[google-appengine] ghs.google.com and all relative ip address were blocked by GFW(Great Fire Wall) in China

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[google-appengine] Please add a way to delete tasks in queues

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[google-appengine] Can't install eclipse plugin

I downloaded a fresh copy of eclipse 3.5 (Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers). After that I attempted to install the plugin using this update site: http://dl.google.com/eclipse/plugin/3.5 On both a Windows 7 and OS 10.5.8 machine I recieved the same error while trying to install the plugin: An

[google-appengine] View this page "Google App Engine Open Source Projects"

Added Kay framework Click on http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine/web/google-app-engine-open-source-projects - or copy & paste it into your browser's address bar if that doesn't work. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subsc

[google-appengine] Re: Failed when I want to donwload a file from my web app

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 7:13 AM, dingle wrote: > > Thanks Nick's explain. > > And quite thanks Barry. Your suggestion make it work. > > I think everyone developing GAE and working on IE should know it. No, what should be done is IE should be fixed. Besides this has nothing to do with GAE, it is

[google-appengine] Re: System Status event messages and their reflection on reality and ongoing Deadline Exceeded Erros

Issue 1695 is the highest non-acknowledged Defect, soon to be the highest non-acknowledged issue, and the only non-acknowledged defect in the top 100 issues. I'm (really) not upset about the bug (though it is definitely causing our users, and therefore us, grief), but I am definitely becoming inc

[google-appengine] Re: how to get over 1 mb respose size url fetch api limit?

Oh. I thought you meant the 1MB limit on downloads OUT of your app. No idea about URL Fetch API, haven't use it... On Sep 25, 2009, at 9:54 AM, Prashant wrote: > what do you mean by storing files on Amazon? i am talking about URL > Fetch api limit ... > > On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Josh

[google-appengine] a try-catch problem

I have a question try: print 'before gql' account = model.User.gql('WHERE email = :1', db.Email(textEmail.strip ()) ).get() print 'after gql' #<-- it will be gone foo(account) catch: print 'error' >>before gql >>error so I change my code this way print 'before gql' account = mod

[google-appengine] Re: how to get over 1 mb respose size url fetch api limit?

what do you mean by storing files on Amazon? i am talking about URL Fetch api limit ... On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Joshua Smith wrote: > > Store the files on Amazon S3. > > If you need to generate the content dynamically, you're out of luck. > > On Sep 25, 2009, at 9:21 AM, Prashant wrote:

[google-appengine] Re: how to get over 1 mb respose size url fetch api limit?

Store the files on Amazon S3. If you need to generate the content dynamically, you're out of luck. On Sep 25, 2009, at 9:21 AM, Prashant wrote: > Hi, > > I want to fetch urls having more than 1mb response size. is there > any way to get around 1 mb response size limit? > > thanks. > > > --~

[google-appengine] how to get over 1 mb respose size url fetch api limit?

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[google-appengine] Re: Failed when I want to donwload a file from my web app

Thanks Nick's explain. And quite thanks Barry. Your suggestion make it work. I think everyone developing GAE and working on IE should know it. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" gro

[google-appengine] Re: More authentication issues with bulkloader.py

Hi Cynthia, The URL is 'remote_api' (note the underscore), but the URL you're passing to the bulk loader is "remote-api". -Nick Johnson On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Cynthia Kurtz wrote: > > The App ID is rakontu. Yes, I've accepted the invitation on the other > account. Both accounts show i

[google-appengine] Re: Downloading pdf

Hi J, Can you be more specific about what happens/doesn't happen? -Nick Johnson On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 1:35 PM, J wrote: > > I can't get GAE to send a file in pdf format. The code needs to verify > if the user has permissions and if so, send the file. > > I thought perhaps encoding was the iss

[google-appengine] Downloading pdf

I can't get GAE to send a file in pdf format. The code needs to verify if the user has permissions and if so, send the file. I thought perhaps encoding was the issue but base64 encoding the content and declaring transfer encoding to be base64 doesn't work either.

[google-appengine] Re: bulkloader.py Authentication

Hi Jeff, Instead of calling the bulkloader directly, call "appcfg.py upload_data", and supply the --no_cookies argument to ignore the cookie file. -Nick Johnson On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Jeff Walter wrote: > > Hello, > > I must have mistyped my Google password when I was authenticating f

[google-appengine] Re: Why Google AppEngine sucks

Having administered a small (4 machine) cluster for a minor web app, I appreciate what it takes to do the job properly. EC2 takes hardware out of the equation, but you still need to know your OS, middleware and database like the back of your hand, and you need to continuously manage it. Scaling da

[google-appengine] Re: Why Google AppEngine sucks

About the link from the OP: I can confirm better performance than that. I manage a web API on App Engine that reaches 80-90 hits per second every day during peak load. About 2/3 of the queries are reads, and 1/3 are write/read combos reads (6-10 CPU seconds' worth per request). On Sep 25, 1:08 p

[google-appengine] Re: is there a Python client library reference somewhere?

Hi Graham, You'll probably have more luck asking this on the GData groups; the Python GData library runs on App Engine, but is otherwise unrelated. -Nick Johnson On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 4:24 AM, Graham Charles wrote: > > I'm finding it difficult to locate a true reference for the Python > client

[google-appengine] Re: Re-register a domain

Hi, This isn't really App Engine related - you may have more luck posting this on the Apps support groups. -Nick Johnson On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 12:54 PM, 42trends <42tre...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > I deployed a simple app to GAE, I tried to configure my private domain > (www.mydomain.com for

[google-appengine] Re: Failed when I want to donwload a file from my web app

Try adding self.response.headers['Cache-Control'] = "max-age=600" There is a bug in IE, when it thinks it cant cache a file, it doesnt even cache it long enough for the download to complete. So you have to tell it can cache the file for long enough. On 25/09/2009, dingle wrote: > > Not works

[google-appengine] Re: Failed when I want to donwload a file from my web app

Hi dingle, Your link works fine for me in Chrome. This is not a matter of lack of App Engine support - it simply transmits the headers you tell it to transmit - but rather what IE requires in terms of headers, something that is outside my own experience. -Nick Johnson On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 11:4

[google-appengine] Re: Failed when I want to donwload a file from my web app

Not works yet. I am frustrated and don't knwo why GAE does not support so simple request. Anyone can test http://faguangrfi.appspot.com/d.txt in your side. Will same error happened? The follwoing is http pachage content. I will quite appreciate your idea... In my localhost which download succe

[google-appengine] Re: Ref static file in CSS file

Any idea why it doesn't worked on GAE? Have you ever try to mapped an image from a CSS file? On Sep 23, 3:19 am, Rodrigo Moraes wrote: > On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 2:43 PM, stelg wrote: > > > Seems that the total URl is not constructured properly (absolute > > reference) url(images/bodyBg.jpg) > >

[google-appengine] Re: Requested Task_Queue Function: add_multi

On Aug 21, 2:43 pm, "Jeff S (Google)" wrote: > Hi James, > > This sounds like a good idea. Would you mind filing a feature request so > that we can track it and others can vote by starring? > > http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/list I've finally added this issue: http://code.goog