On Oct 8, 6:03 pm, Josh Heitzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As os.getpid is not supported by GAE, is there another API that
> provides a unique (preferably across all of GAE) identifier for the
> process? I'd like to use this to identify if an incomplete update
> sequence (spanning entity group
The state of the process is not of interest, just which instance of
many processes it is (i.e. there is no process specific state to store
and query). I've got side entities all setup so that I can reliably
make multi-entity group changes (i.e. processing will continue across
requests, even from
I just used a random number within an import (since imports only
happen once per instance, it should persist for the lifetime of the
process)
On Oct 9, 12:56 am, Josh Heitzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The state of the process is not of interest, just which instance of
> many processes it is
A random number computed at startup is your best bet. We intentionally
do not provide a way to learn the real process id or the id of the
machine.
On Oct 8, 11:56 pm, Josh Heitzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The state of the process is not of interest, just which instance of
> many processes it
Or create an empty datastore object. Its id will be globally unique.
On Oct 9, 12:30 pm, Tony Arkles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just used a random number within an import (since imports only
> happen once per instance, it should persist for the lifetime of the
> process)
>
> On Oct 9, 12:56 a
