Thank you Massimo, So other than the pain of not having SQLFORMS readily available, all the rest would work without any trouble?. I haven't used the factory yet. Need to read about it in the book.
thanks for your help again. Benigno. On Sep 1, 2:58 pm, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: > You would be missing the SQLFORM functionality. You can recover it > uwing SQLFORM.factory. That means you have to explicitly declare your > forms, accept them and use the google APIs for select/insert/update. > > Not that big of a deal but your app would not work without GAE. > > Massimo > > On Sep 1, 4:44 am, Benigno <bca...@albendas.com> wrote: > > > Hello, > > I am considering making a web app using GAE. In my previous tries > > on simplified models using web2py I have misserably failed, and got > > timeouts again and again from google. > > > So I have started reading again as many sources as I could about the > > datastore, scalability and what works or what doesn't work with GAE. > > > Now, I have come to the conclussion that with the kind of use that I > > need to do of the datastore, I have to optimise it as much as > > possible, and for that I will probably needing to access keys > > directly, parents and descendants, polymodels, and lists of keys. And > > of course rethinking the way I had thought my DB to be (which was > > relationally minded all through). > > > The problem now for me, is trying to decide what to do. I very much > > would like to use web2py. So how do I do it in a way that I can use > > all this?. Looking at other frameworks like Django, I very much like > > their app-engine-patch approach in that basically it tells you to use > > the google.db and not Djangos models. In my mind it makes sense as it > > allows the programmer to optimize as much as he wants for scalability, > > and after all, thats one of the main reasons behind choosing GAE. > > > So, with the focus of scalability and optimizing in mind, how do > > you reckon I should be using web2py with GAE ?. Can I simply use > > google's db datastore models on my db.py and just forget about > > web2py's models related functionality? (admin, SQLForms?) is there > > something big I would be missing by doing so?. Or is there any other > > recommended method I could use ?. > > > Thanks for your input, > > Benigno. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to web2py@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
