google-app-engine

Using log4j on Google App Engine

I need to use log4j in my application, but I don't know how I can get properties loaded. Deafult properties files says that I should put log4j.properties to /WEB-INF/classes/ folder, but in eclipse I cannot see that folder and I cannot create it, because it already exists. And I cannot add any files to that folder either. Here is error ...

handling manual user creation with get_current_user() (GAE)

I am using GAE's Python environment and Janrain in order to provide multiple ways to login in my service. Based on login information I receive from Janrain, I create a google.appengine.api.User object and store it to the datastore. Is there a way to handle this new object with the built-in get_current_user()? I need to be able to dete...

Twitter library for App Engine Python?

I am looking for an Python library which is compatible with app engine and provides an interface to the Twitter API. I found the python-twitter project - has anyone has used it on app engine? ...

Google App Engine or Django?

I've been learning Python and now I'd like to learn a Python-based web framework. I'm considering Google App Engine and Django. Which one should I choose? What are their unique features and learning curves? ...

How can I update entity in Google App Engine

I need to update entity that I loaded from the datastore. How can I do this with GAE JDO? ...

Google App Engine version numbers?

How do App Engine numbers work? Are they only integers? Can I use floats? Can I reuse old version numbers? ...

django template does not render complete context

Hello, I am using templates with django. I am having a problem where the Context is not being rendered. The meta_k is null. The meta_description is not. t = get_template('projects.html') html = t.render(Context({ 'completed': completed, 'current':current, 'description': sp.description, 'project_tit...

Appengine java getting an Entity based on Key and conditions

Hi Folks, I'm exploring appengine (java), and as per subject, how do I, using DatastoreService, get an Entity based on Key and conditions? In my scenario, Trainer's have many to many relationship with User's, so I have my structure as so Trainer(id, name, type, department) User(id, name, address, is_activated) TrainerUser(id, trainer_...

Retrieving YAML parameters during runtime in App Engine (Python)

Is it possible to programmatically retrieve any of the YAML parameters during run-time? Are they stored in the environment somewhere? Good example would be to automatically find the application version and to add it as a comment in the landing HTML page. ...

Google App Engine counters

For all my data in the GAE Datastore I have a model for keeping track of counters/total number of records (since we can't use traditional SUM queries). I want to know the most efficient way of incrementing these global count values whenever I insert/delete a record. This is what I'm currently doing: counter = DBCounter.all().fetch(1) db...

How can I send messages to clients without polling?

Every example for GAE Chats uses some kind of polling. However, if my GAE app holds a list of clients (in the datastore if necessary), perhaps I could avoid polling by sending a message to all these clients. How can I achieve this? ...

gae-sessions and django variable passing.

I am using gae-sessions for the back end session management, the problem that occurs is although I am able to get the data of the session in a self.response.out.write() command when I am trying something simple like session = get_current_session() profile = session['me'] templates.render(self, 'tmp.html', profile=profile) {{profile}...

[Google App Engine] Sort by 2 fields? is there any hacks or with index.yaml? or geoPT?

q = WorldObject.all() # define boundaries # left q.filter('x >=', x) # right q.filter('x <', x + width) # top q.filter('y >=', y) # bottom q.filter('y <', y + height) #q.filter('world', world_key) wobjects = q.fetch(1000) I got an error saying I can't use multiple sorts q = WorldObject.all() q.filter('xy >=', db.GeoPt(1, 1)) q.filt...

Google eclipse plugin's initial App Engine skeleton app does nothing but 404 on localhost!?

Ok, so I use the GPE to create a new web project employing GAE but not GWT. Then, I right-click the project and do Run As -> (Google) Web application. Server starts up without error and tells me to visit: http://localhost:8888/. When I visit this url, I'm served a 404 error instead of the index.html page that the project is configur...

Google App Engine Python - sort by density in ListProperty

Hi all, Is that possible to return a db result which sort by density matching in ListProperty For example, I have a db.ListProperty(basestring) with below value: list_A = ['a1','a2','a3','a4','a5'] list_B = ['b1','b2','b3','b4','b5'] list_C = ['a1','a2','b1','b2','b3'] giving to_be_match_list = ['a1','b1','b2'] and return result in ...

Manipulating the DateTime object in Google app engine

Hi! I am making a blog and store the publishing date of a blog post in the datastore. It looks like this: post.date = datetime.datetime.now() It now displays like: 2010-10-04 07:30:15.204352 But I want the datetime to be displayed differently. How (and where) can I set that how the date is displayed? I'd like to set the date format l...

app engine support for HtmlUnit

I'm trying to use HtmlUnit to get DOM of webpages. However, when I try to run this code on app engine development server (using the eclipse plugin): WebClient wc=new WebClient(); HtmlPage page1= wc.getPage("http://ww.google.com/"); I get this exception: java.net.URLStreamHandler is a restricted class. Is it not possible to use Htm...

android to appEngine image content type

I'm sending an image from an Android phone to an AppEngine. The AppEngine is throwing content exceptions. My process of elimination has failed so I suspect I've done something larger wrong. Do I have a content type problem or a larger problem? The AppEngine log shows the following errors depending on the content type [content type -->...

Parsing array of JSON arrays in Groovy

I have the following string from a REST JSON response: [{"uid":10512213, "name":"Bob"},{"uid":7208201, "name":"John"},{"uid":10570, "name":"Jim"},{"uid":1799657, "name":"Sally"}] The rest response definition is from Facebook: FB REST Link I am using Google App Engine + GAELYK which runs in Jetty. What is the best way to convert the a...

Enforcing Unique Constraint in GAE

I am trying out Google App Engine Java, however the absence of a unique constraint is making things difficult. I have been through this post and this blog suggests a method to implement something similar. My background is in MySQL.Moving to datastore without a unique constraint makes me jittery because I never had to worry about duplicat...