Hello group, This seems like a particularly stupid question, but I just can't work out how to do it... It's not a web2py-specific issue; I just happen to be using web2py.
I've got an app underway where I need to upload a set of large-ish (up to 1Mb) CSV files initially, then small updates (<1kb) periodically after that. Running web2py on a non-GAE environment, I could just upload the file, have web2py save it to disk, then process the disk copy once it finishes uploading. I want to parse the file in its entirety to ensure there were no problems with it before loading it into the database. I could happily process the uploaded files via cron; the data isn't particularly time-sensitive. However, with GAE, there's no file system access, so I can't upload the file and save it before processing it. I'd rather not process the file without first parsing it, if there's a reasonable way to do so. Has anyone dealt with this problem before? Is there a simple/elegant solution that I'm missing? Thanks in advance Dave M.
