On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 7:55 PM, Diana Cruise <[email protected]> wrote: > > What options do I have in GAE to allow Users to upload, store, and > view media (photos, video, audio, etc) from my within my application? in short: it's not possible. (don't forget that there is a 1mb limit for requests and responses on http level - and also a 1mb level on all entities (blobs, whatever)).
long version: you can work around that by using ajax calls and composing everything from small requests and / or splitting stuff over many small entities of 1mb each, but i guess that is not something you really want. you can also use services like youtube to put content on external sources and mesh them up with your application, but this is then a completely different scenario (but a creative one :) ).... a service for large file delivery is currently under development by the googlers, but i do not know when it will be publicly available --- this service will change a lot i guess... ra! > > Is there a special data type in datastore that would be used to store > media? If I store a media item in datastore then how do I display it > to the User? In a regular app server, I would do this as a static > file reference where I first transfer the data from the database to a > file accessible under webroot (if it is not already present). But in > GAE the application can NOT create files in the static area due to > permissions...so is there another technique to accomplish this? > > Would videos best be served indirectly via youtube? If so, how do I > know they will NOT be removed prematurely by youtube? > > Thanks. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine for Java" 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-java?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
