Now I understand. Thanks for the clarification. I think there is a bug in store on GAE. There is already an open ticket about this. Will take a look asap.
On Saturday, 2 March 2013 05:21:34 UTC-6, montgome...@gmail.com wrote: > > Sorry if that didn't make sense, let me try again. > > I have small ( < 100 kb) audio files that I am getting on the fly via the > gluon.tools.fetch method from a third party API. I want to insert them into > the uploads folder and create entries for them in the database (as if they > were data uploaded by users). I have been doing this via the store() method > and have had no problems during development. On GAE, however, this is not > working. Specifically, it is throwing a runtime error "you must specify a > Field(...,uploadfolder=...)". My questions are as follows: > > 1) When using the store() method on GAE, what should the 'path' argument > be? > > 2) Since this problem appears when using the store() method to save > uploads to the database on GAE, but not when uploading files using SQLform, > it seems to be a glitch. Is this the case, or am I missing something > obvious? > > Thanks again for the help. > > On Saturday, March 2, 2013 10:15:12 AM UTC+8, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: >> >> What do you mean? >> >> On Friday, 1 March 2013 09:54:22 UTC-6, montgome...@gmail.com wrote: >>> >>> I just discovered that the insert works with the SQLform, but not >>> manually. Any idea why that would be? >>> >>> On Friday, March 1, 2013 12:35:08 PM UTC+8, montgome...@gmail.com wrote: >>>> >>>> So my app is getting some small audio files via the gluon.tools fetch >>>> method, and then storing them manually in the upload folder via the >>>> store() >>>> method. While this works fine on a local server, it doesn't seem to work >>>> on >>>> GAE. It's throwing a runtime error: "you must specify a >>>> Field(...,uploadfolder=...)". Looking at the DAL gluon, this seems to >>>> imply that there is no path specified for the upload folder, even though >>>> that should be a default argument for Field() regardless of backend. >>>> Anyone have any ideas why? >>>> >>>> Here is the code: >>>> >>>> audio_file = StringIO.StringIO(fetch(audio_url)) >>>> self.classcont_id = current.db.classcont.insert(...., quest_audio = >>>> current.db.classcont.quest_audio.store(audio_file, self.audio_name) ,....) >>>> current.db.commit() >>>> >>>> Thanks. >>>> >>> -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
