[google-appengine] Process pdf which is stored in the blobstore

2012-03-08 Thread conman
Hi, is it possible to read a pdf file which previously has been stored in the blobstore? I would like to get the number of pages and perhaps the word count of the document. With pyPdf this is possible, but how do I let pyPdf read in the blobstore? Thanks for your help! Constantin -- You rec

[google-appengine] class_for_kind

2008-08-27 Thread conman
Hello, I wrote a convenient admin interface which often uses db.class_for_kind(model_idf) where model_idf is the name of the model class I want to examine. But when running on appspot I often got a kind error at this statement because datastore seemed to not know the entity until at least one

[google-appengine] Re: class_for_kind

2008-08-28 Thread conman
Hi Rafe, yea, that helped, thanks! I guess I implemented the whole dummy c**p for nothing :) Regards, Constantin --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send

[google-appengine] Does the Request Timout still exist

2010-04-02 Thread conman
I searched the docs but didn't find something about the request timout. The last time I read something about (around Feb 09) it it was at max. 30 sec per request. Does this limitation still exist? I mean with the introduction of cron jobs inside GAE this limitation should have been dropped... or

[google-appengine] How many taks can be created within one request?

2010-04-06 Thread conman
How long does it take to create task? In the docs it is suggested to create one task for each email to send out (in case of the mass email scenario). So if I have a list with 10.000 subscribers and I want to inform them all, then I would have to create 10.000 tasks. But how many taks can be create

[google-appengine] Re: How many taks can be created within one request?

2010-04-06 Thread conman
d somewhere, so there is a cost. The optimal solution is likely a > hierarchical tree of task creation (1000s, then 100s, then 10s). > > On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 2:01 AM, conman > > > > > > wrote: > > How long does it take to create task? > > > In the docs it

[google-appengine] Do version changes affect my cron job scheduling?

2010-04-11 Thread conman
I am not sure why that is, but I have the feeling that app engine cron jobs are not totally reliable. I have 3 cron jobs scheduled at "every 24 hours" but a some days they are run and at some days they are not run at all. And If they are run the time of execution is not predictable (at least for m

[google-appengine] Re: Do version changes affect my cron job scheduling?

2010-04-11 Thread conman
27;known fact that the cron job times are reset when you upload > a new version. > If you tell it "every 24 hours" and within 24 hours you do another > upload no cron job is called. > Better is to specify a time of day to run the job "every day 00:00" > > 2010

[google-appengine] Re: HTTPS Support for appspot.com

2008-10-17 Thread conman
Oh Boy!! That are great news!! Thanks for your _excellent_ work! Regards, Constantin On 17 Okt., 00:03, "Marzia Niccolai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One of the most frequently requested features for App Engine has been HTTPS > serving capabilities.  Today we're excited to announce that App E

[google-appengine] conversion of pricing into page impressions

2008-11-22 Thread conman
Hello, I know about the official pricing model for app engine[1], but where I need help is a rough conversion of this values (for example cpu cycles) into served page impressions. I know that this value depends heavily on the application, but what ranges are here to expect? And also I'd like to

[google-appengine] Re: conversion of pricing into page impressions

2008-11-25 Thread conman
the burned ressources - which have to be paid. Thanks! Constantin On 22 Nov., 16:40, conman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I know about the official pricing model for app engine[1], but where I > need help is a rough conversion of this values (for example cpu > cyc

[google-appengine] Re: conversion of pricing into page impressions

2008-11-25 Thread conman
Ah, ok yejun, that doubles my guessing (which was $ 5 for 1 Mio. page views) Any other opinions? On 25 Nov., 12:13, yejun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think 1 million views will roughly cost $10 if each view uses 0.1s > cpu and 100k size. > > On Nov 25, 5:55 am, conman

[google-appengine] Changes in Dashboard?

2008-12-16 Thread conman
Hi, a few hours ago I was surprised when looking at my CPU mcycle quota which showed me that I have been consuming up to 12 % of my 24h quota. This was very surprising because the site doesn't serve real traffic - ca. 5 visitors per day and some development / debugging done by myself. How can th

[google-appengine] Re: Googe App Engine and Friend Connect...

2008-12-16 Thread conman
I amnot quite sure if I unserstand your question but I guess you need to manage your own User Login status which can be triggered by either Google Account Login or by FriendConnect or Facebook Connect or OpenId etc... That way a user would have the possibility to log in via different auth provide

[google-appengine] How-To Do Paging on App Engine

2009-01-26 Thread conman
I just looked into the artile "How-To Do Paging on App Engine" in the App Engine archive and I think that the Contributor object seems to me like an overkill for that kind of problem. If you want to prevent multiple 'created' values to be equal you could just append a random number at the end of

[google-appengine] Re: How-To Do Paging on App Engine

2009-01-27 Thread conman
yes, you are right, this is even better :) Tx for the tip! Constantin On 26 Jan., 19:32, ryan wrote: > agreed, that would definitely help prevent multiple created values. > using a guid generator would be even better. > > having said that, paging on "created" properties like that aren't > real

[google-appengine] App engine problems

2009-02-06 Thread conman
Hello, recently I am observing *many* DealineExeededErrors in my app! This happens even when serving only static content without any datastore operations. I really think it's not my app because 1 h ago it worked quite normal. This sucks because we just send out customer information and now our

[google-appengine] Re: App engine problems

2009-02-06 Thread conman
Hi Marzia, > There have been periods this morning with higher than average serving > latency, but so far this is all we have seen: I am pretty sure there was something wrong. I am sitting in Europe, maybe that's the reason... But I tested my site multiple times with http://www.hyperspin.com/ wh

[google-appengine] Re: App engine problems

2009-02-07 Thread conman
This is not the 500 page of our app. The reported problems resulted in a 500 page of the google service. So actually we cannot 'design the app to not do that' :) Regards, Constantin --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the G

[google-appengine] Re: App engine problems

2009-02-07 Thread conman
The error report on http://code.google.com/status/appengine/detail/serving/2009/02/06#ae-trust-detail-helloworld-get-latency from yesterday 11:00 am talks about a memcache problem which 'didn't affect the perfomance or uptime of applications' I hope this problem was the reason for the heavy error

[google-appengine] Again *major* server errors of app engine!

2009-02-07 Thread conman
It's happening again!! Our site is not accessible but instead showing a google 500 server error page!!! The whole day everything worked normal but in the early evening (Germany/Europe) or forenoon (PST) the serving of the site is broken again - and I definitively didn't change anything today! Y

[google-appengine] Re: Again *major* server errors of app engine!

2009-02-07 Thread conman
calls.  It seemed like a large number of > requests were reloading the entire Django environment (and maybe doing > so more slowly than usual...) which resulted in periodic deadline > exceeded errors on very simple pages.    Sound possible? > > johnP > > On Feb 7, 9:29 am

[google-appengine] Re: Again *major* server errors of app engine!

2009-02-08 Thread conman
back > > to this on Monday.  :) > > > johnP > > > On Feb 7, 10:59 am, conman > > wrote: > > > > Yea, I am using appengine patch too and in my logs are a lot deadline > > > exceeded errors which result from > > > request on very simp

[google-appengine] Re: Again *major* server errors of app engine!

2009-02-08 Thread conman
> If you import things in main.py (where our main method is) does that > keep things in memory? > > The docs seem to be pretty light on details about how to do this. > > -Mike > > On Feb 8, 3:19 am, conman > wrote: > > > Davel63, are you also using appengine p

[google-appengine] Re: Again *major* server errors of app engine!

2009-02-09 Thread conman
No, I don't understand why the app has problems loading django at some specific times of the day... Today everything seems normal but I don't have a good feeling if the source of the error is not clear and so it may still exist. Maybe someone of google can shed some light into that?? Regards, C

[google-appengine] Re: GAE Team, How does the import cache work? How do we reduce custom django overhead?

2009-02-10 Thread conman
I am not quite sure, but it seems to me the zipimport/loading of our app is only a problem in the early evening (Germany)/forenoon PST It's now 8:00 am PST and our app failes serving - just on time as it was the days before. It's not that we get more traffic/less traffic at this time of the day.

[google-appengine] AppEngine and Google Base API

2009-05-12 Thread conman
Hello, I am thinkting about using Google Base API to establish keyword based search for my application. After reading through the docs I am pretty sure this could work out quite well :) Does anyone have experience in that field? Is it the right appoach to use Google Base like that (I know that'

[google-appengine] Free Quoata Reduction?

2009-06-22 Thread conman
Hi, I just looked at the dashboard and saw that nearly one third of my free CPU quoata has been used up for today. How can that be, because my app didn't do significantly more than the other day when I looked last (I guess it was end of last week) Is this a known monitoring issue or was there a

[google-appengine] Re: Free Quoata Reduction?

2009-06-23 Thread conman
9:17, jianwen wrote: > I also noticed that. The free CPU hours now reduce to 6.50 per day, > and Outgoing/Incoming Bandwidth reduce to 1GB per day. > > On Jun 23, 2:43 pm, conman > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I just looked at the dashboard and saw that nearly one third

[google-appengine] Re: Free Quoata Reduction?

2009-06-23 Thread conman
-your-app-beyond-... > > On 23 juin, 09:30, conman > wrote: > > > Why didn't they send out a notification about that... don't like it to > > see that happen, but at least I would like to become informed. > > > The "free 5 Mio PI" claim from

[google-appengine] Re: Offline?

2009-07-02 Thread conman
same for me On 2 Jul., 17:30, "bruno.braga" wrote: > And this is the attempt to open the dashboard: > > http://lh3.ggpht.com/_A7V9t45pMLU/SkzRNkvwu0I/TE4/zryzVNPq1Ck... --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Googl