[google-appengine] Re: DeadlineExceededException - how to avoid?

2009-06-17 Thread J Keller
> It should be fairly straightforward to handle this polling in > Javascript, eliminating the infinite redirect loop and allowing for > the possibility of giving status readouts for the user :) That sounds promising. I very familiar with Java, but have just started playing with javascript recentl

[google-appengine] Re: DeadlineExceededException - how to avoid?

2009-06-16 Thread J Keller
Thank you Scott - that redirect trick worked great. After processing a subset of the data, I simply redirect back to my service. Each time it caches more of the data, until the job is complete. Sometimes this can cause the browser to give up and report an 'infinite redirect loop', but it usuall

[google-appengine] Re: DeadlineExceededException - how to avoid?

2009-06-03 Thread J Keller
That might help some, but according to the docs: A cron job will invoke a URL at a given time of day. A URL invoked by cron is subject to the same limits and quotas as a normal HTTP request, including the request time limit. Unfortuantely, I don't think I can reasonably break my task down in

[google-appengine] Re: DeadlineExceededException - how to avoid?

2009-06-03 Thread J Keller
Ouch. So does this mean I can't use the GAE to do any operation that's going to take longer than 30 seconds? Surely that's not the case - that would change it from being a very useful tool, to one which is useless (for me, anyway). I hope I'm missing something... --~--~-~--~~---

[google-appengine] Re: DeadlineExceededException - how to avoid?

2009-06-02 Thread J Keller
Okay, thank you Nick. Is there any way I can somehow continue processing, after returning a response to the user? If not, I suppose I could spin off multiple threads on the server side, and hope they all finish in time. Thanks again. -J --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Yo

[google-appengine] DeadlineExceededException - how to avoid?

2009-06-02 Thread J Keller
I'm getting this exception. My service is trying to read some data from another web site, which can take longer than 30 seconds. Is there anyway I can avoid or handle this? com.google.apphosting.api.DeadlineExceededException: This request (81a5d375fd2b99be) started at 2009/05/28 14:22:03.542 UT

[google-appengine] Access to deploy Java app?

2009-05-21 Thread J Keller
What's the status on getting access to deploy Java apps? I've created one, but I get the "400 Bad Request - Invalid runtime specified" error, which I think means I don't have access yet. I'm using Eclipse to deploy. Thanks! -J --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received