Did they remove the requirement of turning on billing to access the blob store when they moved it out of beta?
On Jun 16, 3:41 pm, Kelly A <[email protected]> wrote: > Really bursts of RAM usage of up to 10 megs for the term of an image > operation are not likely to increase RAM costs for the image API that > much. The case of uploading and image is some what infrequent and > they could impose quotas that would, force frequent users of large > memory consumption to pay. Not to mention, the method you described > uses the same amount of RAM to resize the image as my process would > use. The JPEG still needs to be loaded into memory, decoded into > another block of memory, resized into another bock of memory and then > encoded into yet another block of memory with both processes. > > I am not saying that I don't want to pay, I am saying that the system > should function on common data. I will happily pay when my AMOUNT of > USAGE exceeds quotas, just like every other charge in Google App > Engine. > > My specific point about turning on charging is not about paying any > way, as I would not be using enough blob store to get charged, but > having to go through extra steps to access something that should be > considered basic functionality. > > The image API right now works like a building where all of the doors > are too small for the average person to pass through. > > On Jun 16, 2:40 pm, Jaroslav Záruba <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Kelly A <[email protected]> wrote: > > > So if I save an image into the blob store then load it from the blob > > > store I can work on it as long as the result is smaller than 1 > > > megabyte. > > > > this would be extremely inefficient in my case: > > > > 350k Jpeg stored as the primary image > > > 10k Thumbnail created from that image > > > > I do not need to use blob store for these cases. > > > > current process: > > > > Get bits >> resize bits >> Save Bits > > > > Proposed process: > > > > Get bits >> save to Blob store >> Read from blob store >> resize bits > > > >> save bits > > > > Since I am not storing anything larger than 1 megabyte I don't need to > > > keep the blog store around so add in a delete to delete this temporary > > > blob store item. > > > The idea was to make images you can't load (due to their size) smaller so > > you can load them, In a way that would not bother your users. > > > > Plus I would need to turn on billing to even get this to work. > > > > so even though there is a work around here, I say it is still > > > desirable for the Google App team to take a look at this and see that > > > the current limitations on the Image API are not reasonable. > > > Sure it is perfectly reasonable. Disk-space is cheap, RAM is not, working > > with images takes RAM. You want Google to buy more RAM for you but refuse to > > pay for it. > > > On Jun 15, 3:17 pm, Jaroslav Záruba <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Kelly A <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > Jaroslav, > > > > > > Yes you can save but if you call images.resize(imagebits, 100, 100) on > > > > > an image that is greater than 1 megabyte it will throw > > > > > "RequestTooLargeError: The request to API call images.Transform() was > > > > > too large.". > > > > >http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/images/overview.html#Trans... > > > > > import com.google.appengine.api.images.Image; > > > > import com.google.appengine.api.images.ImagesService; > > > > import com.google.appengine.api.images.ImagesServiceFactory; > > > > import com.google.appengine.api.images.Transform; > > > > > // ... > > > > BlobKey blobKey; // ... > > > > > ImagesService imagesService = > > > ImagesServiceFactory.getImagesService(); > > > > > Image oldImage = > > > > ImagesServiceFactory.makeImageFromBlob(blobKey); > > > > Transform resize = ImagesServiceFactory.makeResize(200, 300); > > > > > Image newImage = imagesService.applyTransform(resize, oldImage); > > > > > byte[] newImageData = newImage.getImageData(); > > > > -- > > > 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]<google-appengine%2Bunsubscrib > > > [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.
