google-app-engine

What is the correct way to generate a json from file in GoogleAppEngine?

I'm quite new to python and GAE, can anyone please provide some help/sample code for doing the following simple task? I managed to read a simple file and output it as a webpage but I need some slightly more complicated logic. Here is the pseudo code: open file; for each line in file { store first line as album title; for eac...

Scaling on Amazon EC2

Hi, I have several newbie questions about EC2, thanks for your attention, 1) why EC2 instances come with specific memory/storage quotas? In the cloud environment, can't we just request the amount of memory/storage as we require, and the amazon infrastructure take care of the allocation? I understand an pre-determined allocation of mem...

JQuery "get" failure (using Google App Engine on the back-end)

What I am trying to do is pretty simple: yet something has clearly gone awry. On the Front-End: function eval() { var x = 'Unchanged X' $.get("/", { entry: document.getElementById('entry').value }, function(data){ x = data; } ); $("#result").html(x); } On the Back-End: class MainHandl...

Configure Restlet to Return JSPs on Google App Engine?

I have a developed a Restlet application. I would like to return a JSP file on a URL request through Restlet. How can I achieve this without using a redirect? i.e. Let's say I have the file "contact.jsp" on mydomain.com and I want people to be able to access contact.jsp at http://mydomain.com/contact Thus, in Restlet, I would have: r...

GWT, Google App Engine, TimerTask or Thread in ServiceImpl throw exception.

I am using GWT and Google App Engine. I have array of records and I want to update them every 30 mins. In the ServiceImpl I have the fallowing code : new Timer().schedule(new TimerTask(){ @Override public void run() { try { Thread.sleep(30000); } catch (InterruptedException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } res...

Google AppEngine Query Order

How can I order the results of Query using more than 1 property? For example, I want to order my Query results by 'lastname' and order by 'firstname' in each group of 'lastname'. ...

Server push (Comet) in Google App Engine in Python

How can I implement Comet / Server push in Google App Engine in Python? ...

How does one make logging color in Django/Google App Engine?

If one iswriting a Django/ Google App Engine application and would like to have logs that are conveniently conspicuous based on color (i.e. errors in red), how does one set that up? I've copied the helpful solution from this question, but I'm not sure how to integrate it into Django/Google App Engine. I figured one would put the follow...

Why does this python method gives an error saying global name not defined?

I have a single code file for my Google App Engine project. This simple file has one class, and inside it a few methods. Why does this python method gives an error saying global name not defined? Erro NameError: global name 'gen_groups' is not defined import wsgiref.handlers from google.appengine.ext import webapp from django.utils im...

Reset count in GQL (Google App Engine)

I'm having a hard time trying to reset my ID/Name column in my google app. Right now it's on 3002, yet there's only 1 other peice of data still in the DB. I'm not even certain how it decided on 300x over like 1,2,3... I'm sure this is a simple problem for someone more SQL inclined than I am :). Thanks in advance! ...

Using the Python NLTK (2.0b5) on the Google App Engine

I have been trying to make the NLTK (Natural Language Toolkit) work on the Google App Engine. The steps I followed are: Download the installer and run it (a .dmg file, as I am using a Mac). copy the nltk folder out of the python site-packages directory and place it as a sub-folder in my project folder. Create a python module in the fo...

Which development environment should I use for developing Google App Engine with Python?

Hello, I would like to ask which IDE should I use for developing applications for Google App Engine with Python language? Is Eclipse suitable or is there any other development environment better? Please give me some advices! Thank you! ...

Take a screenshot of a URL programmatically in Google App Engine?

I would like to take a screenshot of a rendered webpage in Google App Engine. Any suggestions on the best way I can accomplish this? Any Java libraries that I can programmatically render a page to a JPG or PNG? ...

Google App Engine + jQuery Ajax = 405 Method Not Allowed

Someone has to be able to explain what I'm doing wrong here! I'm trying to create the MOST simple example of an AJAX post to a Google App Engine app...and I'm failing! Here is the app python import cgi from google.appengine.api import users from google.appengine.ext import webapp from google.appengine.ext.webapp.util import run_wsgi...

Replace AppEngine Devserver With Spawning (BaseHTTPRequestHandler as WSGI)

I'm looking to replace AppEngine's devserver with spawning. Spawning handles standard wsgi handlers, just like appengine, so running your app on it is easy. But the devserver takes into account your app.yaml file that has url redirects etc. I've been going through the devserver code and it is pretty easy to get the BaseHTTPRequestHandle...

How to use SBT (Simple Build Tool) with Google App Engine?

Has anybody tried to setup SBT to work with Google App Engine? I dream about using development server auto-reloading after source changes. ...

how to register more than 10 apps in Google App Engine

Anyone knows any "legal" way to surpass the 10-app-limit Google imposes? I wouldn't mind to pay, or anything, but I wasn't able to find a way to have more than 10 apps and can't either remove one. ...

On Google AppEngine what is the best way to merge two tables?

If I have two tables, Company and Sales, and I want to display both sets of data in a single list, how would I do this on Google App Engine using GQL? The models are: class Company(db.Model): companyname = db.StringProperty() companyid = db.StringProperty() salesperson = db.StringProperty() class Sales(db.Model): ...

How can one perform full text search in Google App Engine?

It's a simple question, but I haven't found the answer anywhere. Thoughts and input appreciated. I'm using Django, too, for what it's worth. :) Cheers. ...

Can you delete appengine projects?

I just hit my 10 application limit. Is there a way to delete ones where I never finished the idea? http://appengine.google.com/ ...