Vince, I was unable to upload small photos...getting error code 500! What is the basic principle behind this solution? It appears you are storing the file in datastore in increments of 1M or less...along the lines of what Raphael was getting at. How do you display a list of images from the datastore on a webpage?
On Oct 22, 1:33 pm, Vince Bonfanti <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Diana, > > I've created GaeVFS to solve this problem: > > http://code.google.com/p/gaevfs/ > > You can view a demonstration here: > > http://gaevfs.appspot.com/ > > Note that the current released version (0.3) will only upload about > 2.0MB before timing out; the latest code in SVN will support the full > 10.0MB allowed by Google App Engine. > > There's a feature on the roadmap called "Service for storing and > serving large files," but there's apparently no additional information > available on this feature: > > http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/roadmap.html > > Vince > > > > On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 1:55 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? > > > 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.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
