app-engine-patch

app-engine-patch with pyamf = No module named encoding

I'm trying to use app-engine-patch with pyamf by following this: http://pyamf.org/wiki/GoogleAppEngine because I want to migrate my Django <-> pyamf application to app-engine-patch <-> pyamf. What I have now is that I created my gateway.py with only one line of code: import pyamf just to test can I use pyamf and I get blank page whe...

Does Google App Engine with app-engine-patch support emailing ADMINS upon 500 errors?

Django will email ADMINS upon 500 errors. Reading app-engine-patch docs, it claims to enable mail support, but I can't tell if it does so enough to support 500 emailing. I tried it and it doesn't seem to be working, but it is a silent failure with no log messages, so I might have misconfigured something. Does anyone have experience wi...

Django instance start under Google App Engine

After thinking quite a while about how to make a fast and scalable web application, I am almost decided to go for a combination of Google App Engine, Python+Django, and app-engine-patch. But I came across a comment in the app-engine-patch FAQ that made me think that perhaps the combination is not quite as mature as I thought: it may take...

basic unique ModelForm field for Google App Engine

I do not care about concurrency issues. It is relatively easy to build unique form field: from django import forms class UniqueUserEmailField(forms.CharField): def clean(self, value): self.check_uniqueness(super(UniqueUserEmailField, self).clean(value)) def check_uniqueness(self, value): same_user = users.User.a...

AppEngine/Django: editing db.Key in the Admin app

Or, to be precise, how do I properly present a form to edit a db.ListProperty of db.Keys on a model admin page, with app-engine-patch for Django? I have a Category like this: class Category(db.Model): title = db.CategoryProperty(required=True) and a Post with this: categories = db.ListProperty(db.Key) Currently in the Django a...

Problem with local dumpdata (on django app-engine-patch)

I'm using django with app-engine-patch and I'm having this wierd problem running manage.py dumpdata from local store (works fine when I use the --remote option) I'm running a local development server that has some test data on it. I can see that data on the admin site. However running manage.py dumpdata all I get is this: [{"pk": "agZm...

Do fixtures with relationships work in app-engine-patch?

I have a fixture with multiple models that I'm using for testing. It works for the basic models, but fails to create the entities for the models with relationships. Is this a known limitation of app-engine-patch or am I missing something? I'm using JSON for the fixture file. I'm creating the fixture file with 'manage.py dumpdata --fo...

Serving simple image with App Engine django patch?

How the heck do i serve a simple img without all that MediaGenerator nonsense, in Django on App Engine? I am using app engine patch. I got layout like this: django_app_engine_project_folder my_app Where should my folder for my media be? In my_app? Or do I put everything in the top media folder? I want to do something like this in...

tinymce in appengine patch ?

Does anyone know how to integrate tinymce in appengine patch ? ...

How do I get PyFacebook working with the Google App Engine Patch?

I've tried to follow the advice of this question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/984071/facebook-django-and-google-app-engine, however I've run into a number of problems. The first is that from facebook.djangofb import facebook doesn't work because when I try to use the decorator @facebook.require_login(), it complains that the face...

Set parent in a ModelForm in Google App Engine

I want to create an Entity Group relationship in an Entity that is being created through a ModelForm. How do I pass the parent instance and set the parent= attribute in the ModelForm? ...

Optimizing ModelChoiceField query in django Admin (AppEngine)

I have two models: Activity and Place. The Activity model has a ReferenceProperty to the Place model. This was working fine until the Place table started growing and now when trying to edit an Activity via django admin I get a memory error from Google (it doesn't happen if I remove that field from the Activity admin's fieldsets) The wi...

Why would a Django admin site limited to 301 entries?

I'm working on a Google App Engine project using Django. I noticed that for some reason, the Django administration system page lists only 301 entities for one model, and 301 entities for another model. But there are actually over 500 stored instances for both of these models. What could be causing this problem? ...

Google App Engine with Django Patch and the Deferred library

Anyone successfully using deferred.defer library with app-engine-patch? If so please share. ...

Images caching in browser - app-engine-patch aplication

Hi, I have a little problem with caching the images in the browser for my app-engine aplication I`m sending last-modified, expires and cache-control headers but image is loaded from the server every time. Here is the header part of the code: response['Content-Type'] = 'image/jpg' response['Last-Modified'] = current_time.strftime('%a, ...

app-engine-patch is dead. Now what is the best way to use Django on Google App Engine?

The app-engine-patch authors have officially marked this wonderful project as dead on their website. Over the last year a lot of people have asked what the best way to run Django on Google App Engine was, and time after time people have pointed to app-engine-patch being the way to go. Now that this project is dead, I would love to revis...

Multi choice form field in Django

Hi! I'am developing application on app-engine-path. I would like to make form with multichoice (acceptably languages for user). Code look like this: Language settings: settings.LANGUAGES = ((u"cs", u"Čeština"), (u"en", u"English")) Form model: class UserForm(forms.ModelForm): first_name = forms.CharField(max_length=100) ...

appcfg.py upload_data entity kind problem

Hi, I am developing application on app-engine-path and I would like to upload some data to datastore. For example I have a model models/places.py: class Place(db.Model): name = db.StringProperty() longitude = db.FloatProperty() latitude = db.FloatProperty() If I save this in view, kind() of this entity is "models_place"...

how can i use django session in GAE

i have an app in GAE, but i have no idea about how to use django session, although i know the app-engine-patch may be helpful. who can give me a demo how to use it for session? thank you! ...

Django vs GAE + Django vs GAE + other framework

I`m looking for opinion which one is better for building web applications(web sites). I have some experience with Django, and some with Google App Engine and App-Engine-Patch for Django. And it seems to me that only Django is working faster than the GAE implementation. Is there some other frameworks that simplify the developments process...