Hello?

I'm starting to feel hopeless, No luck in StackOverflow and no luck here
:-(...

Well, i guess it just can't be done.

On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Hector Guilarte <hector...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm new to SQLite as well as to this list. I'm writing because I was
> planning on using SQLite for a personal -but public- project that I wanted
> to make available through Google App Engine. It is basically a SQLite to
> CSV converter and a SQLite to VCard converter. In other words, I have an
> Address Book in a SQLite database and I wanted to export it to a well-known
> format for importing it to some other places, as CSV and as VCard.
>
> I already placed my question in StackOverflow.com last friday with no
> luck, it has only been seen 21 times and the only answer I received was not
> helpfull since it was telling me somehing like "first use something like
> what you are trying to develop yourself and then use yours with their
> output" (nahh, I'm kidding, but the real answer is not far from that and it
> can be seen here:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11155537/load-sqlite-from-inputstream-in-java-as-readonly
> )
>
> If somebody has an answer, even if it is "It's not possible at all, so
> drop it" and is a stackoverflow user, feel free to go ahead and answer over
> there to earn the points, but please post your answer here as well. Now my
> question as I wrote it in StackOverflow:
>
> I have an App which receives a SQLite database to read some data and
> export it as an CSV. I'm trying to upload it to Google App Engine but I
> faced a huge problem which I think makes it impossible to use the GAE for
> this app.
>
> The problem is that since on the GAE I can't write to the FileSystem, I
> can't open the JDBC Connection to the SQLite file and therefore I can't
> read the data to convert to CSV. I've been looking for other options such
> as Google Cloud Storage, but I don't want to use my only "free trial" of it
> on this application, and actually I don't want to have to pay ever for this
> app after the Free Trial ends, so this is not an option.
>
> After a lot of research, my only guess is that I might be able to load the
> database straight from the InputStream as I received it from the upload
> form I'm using to get it, however, this is a 100% lucky guess and I've not
> been able to find anything about this approach online, but I just don't
> want to believe it can't be done with any of the existing JDBC libraries to
> SQLite and I'm hoping somebody here will tell me how to do it.
>
> If the InputStream approach is not possible, but you know some other way
> to open a SQLite DB in GAE to READ ONLY, and then dispose it, feel free to
> comment as well...
>
> If there is another option like "don't use JDBC, use a socket connection
> with a pipe to open the connection with the InputStream", I'd also like to
> hear that, it does not HAVE to be done with JDBC.
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Héctor Guilarte
>
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