[google-appengine] Re: Dev server with production datastore?

2011-01-25 Thread Peter Liu
It takes really long time to download when there's 100k+ entries, and when it gets unexpected error code, it stops transferring. Not to mention that it's costly and data is not always updated. On Jan 25, 11:07 pm, Wim den Ouden wdenou...@gmail.com wrote: With appcfg.py download_data you can

Re: [google-appengine] Re: Dev server with production datastore?

2011-01-25 Thread Barry Hunter
So what you trying to do? Actully connect to the live datastore - directly? Can use remote_api - need to setup the local machine to use the API for queries. I dont actully know how hard that is. Of course it will make queries much slower, as they have to transfer over the live internet (and be

Re: [google-appengine] Re: Dev server with production datastore?

2011-01-25 Thread Ikai Lan (Google)
For most cases, you should create local data and use fixtures to load data. However, if you must use live data, I would suggest uploading a new, non-default version of your application. Different versions can share the same datastore, so you can view/test your app against live data. If you are

Re: [google-appengine] Re: Dev server with production datastore?

2011-01-25 Thread nacho
Take a look to this http://code.google.com/p/remote-datastore/ I'd never used it but maybe could it be useful for you. Regards -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To post to this group, send email to

[google-appengine] Re: Dev server with production datastore?

2011-01-25 Thread Peter Liu
Thanks! Exactly what I am looking for. This plus security and a read only mode will be perfect. On Jan 26, 4:39 am, nacho vela.igna...@gmail.com wrote: Take a look to thishttp://code.google.com/p/remote-datastore/ I'd never used it but maybe could it be useful for you. Regards -- You