Hi Greg,

You might want to check out the Capabilities API:
http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/source/browse/trunk/python/google/appengine/api/capabilities/__init__.py

It will let you determine if a particular service is expected to be
unavailable.

-Nick Johnson

On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 6:58 AM, Greg <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> With the upcoming maintenance, I want to add a check at the start of
> the handler to see if I should display a maintenance notice. This will
> run on every request, so it would be good to use as lightweight a
> check as possible. The documentation says CapabilityDisabledError is
> thrown by db.Model.put(), db.Model.delete(), and
> db.run_in_transaction().
>
> My question is this: can I use run_in_transaction() with a dummy
> function - testing without the overhead of actually doing a put()?
>
> I realise that in this case memcache is also being disabled, so I can
> test by doing a memcache.set() instead, but it would be nice to
> develop a function that can be called to test both, for cases when
> maintenance only affects one or the other. Also could a Googler
> comment on how syncronised the disabling of datastore and memcache
> are? Milliseconds, seconds, or minutes?
>
> >

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