Re: [appengine-java] Re: Blobstore and upload question

2011-09-22 Thread Brandon Donnelson
I used a servlet to spit out an upload URL in plain text. If its unsecure, you could just type a get request into the url and it should render a url in a format that you could grab. It could be any content type you like. I used a plain text (unsecure) servlet to render the url in plain text (for

Re: [appengine-java] Re: Blobstore and upload question

2011-07-28 Thread Stephen Johnson
There is a 1MB limit for entities in the datastore so if your data fits within that limit than the datastore is a good option. My app stores all its data in the datastore including videos, audio files, images, pdf's, etc. I started it before the blobstore existed. So, if your data is greater than

Re: [appengine-java] Re: Blobstore and upload question

2011-07-28 Thread GeorgeS
Stephen, thanks for the information! I had started to put the text into a Datastore but somehow the Blobstore looked easier to deal with. I'll revisit the datastore idea. I don't have to worry about breaking the data up since these files are never more than 32K in size and that is an extreme

Re: [appengine-java] Re: Blobstore and upload question

2011-07-28 Thread Stephen Johnson
If your data is never more than 32K in size then the datastore is definitely the way to go. Way easier and simpler IMHO. On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 10:30 AM, GeorgeS sxoutt...@gmail.com wrote: Stephen, thanks for the information! I had started to put the text into a Datastore but somehow the