It just sounds like what you need are long running background tasks. If you
expect this to take more than 10 minutes, you can either do task queue
chaining with query cursors, or look into one of the pipelining tools:

1. Fantasm: http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/fantasm.html
2. Pipeline API: http://code.google.com/p/appengine-pipeline/


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On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Dan Dubois <[email protected]> wrote:

> OK thanks for letting me know. I am certainly looking forward to being able
> to map over a subset of entities. It'll make my implementation of
> broadcasting using the Channel API much nicer!
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