Hi Jeffrey,
You're quite right about the problems with the capabilities API during this
downtime. Unfortunately, a bug prevented it from working correctly this time
around, resulting in it incorrectly returning True for queries where it
should return False. We've tracked down the bug, and are
The capabilities API is not returning as expected :(
I set up my app to use the following code from:
http://blog.notdot.net/2010/03/Handling-downtime-The-capabilities-API-and-testing
More specifically
datastore_write_enabled = capabilities.CapabilitySet('datastore_v3',