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/ Ikai Lan Developer Programs Engineer, Google App Engine Blog: http://googleappengine.blogspot.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/app_engine Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/appengine 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! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
