Have you looked at the Blobstore API? http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/blobstore/overview.html#Using_the_Image_Service_with_the_Blobstore
Users can upload files up to 2GB, and the Image API can *load* images from Blobstore. The only limitation is that the resulting image has to be less than 1MB. On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Kelly A <[email protected]> wrote: > I am sure that no one on the App Engine team can comment on this but I > just have to talk about it to get it off my chest cause it is a > constant pain in my butt. > > Many modern jpeg images will decompress to sizes over 1 megabyte, even > those taken with the cheapest of point and shoot digital cameras. So > people uploading images to your application that are few hundred > kilobytes are too big to be resized to a thumbnail because when the > image functions decompresses the jpeg it is greater than 1 megabyte > and blamo! You get the too big error and your whole application re- > initializes. I cannot begin to communicate how much of a bummer this > is. > > I know that the product road map has and entry for "Raise request/ > response size limits for some APIs" would this address this issue? If > so, might we see it this year? If not can some one put some thought > into how this might be a priority? > > Thanks for listening. > -=Kelly > > p.s. I know I can implement a client side solution and am doing such, > but I am not particularly fond of having to add more flash components > to my site and I will never use a Java applet in a web page. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" 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?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" 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?hl=en.
