Hi Emlyn,
You could move the request to a task, then increase the deadline.
That would probably be the easiest solution.
http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/urlfetch/fetchfunction.html
Robert
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 09:13, Emlyn <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm struggling with talking to WordPress from my gae app.
>
> I've got code that works some of the time, but sometime throws
> Application Error: 5, which I believe means it is being timed out by
> GAE. Application Error: 5 is thrown if the communication with
> WordPress takes longer than 5 seconds.
>
> Here's the code (which runs in the default instance, not a backend):
>
> from pyblog import WordPress
>
> ...
>
> try:
> logging.debug("About to post to wp")
> wp = WordPress(lserverapi, lusername, lpassword)
> lwppost = {}
> lwppost['description'] = lpostcontent
> lwppost['title'] = lpostcontent[:140]
> result = wp.new_post(lwppost)
> lpostresult = "Posted to wp, result: %s" % ( str(result) )
> logging.info(lpostresult)
> except Exception, ex:
> logging.error(ex)
> lpostresult = '** Exception: %s **' % (str(ex))
>
> pyblog is here: http://code.google.com/p/python-blogger/
> pyblog uses xmlrpclib (it's a fairly trivial wrapper over xmlrpclib).
>
> It's driving me to distraction, because the wp.new_post() call times
> out, but also succeeds (ie: the post is created). But for what I'm
> doing, I *must* get the id back from the new_post() call so I can
> store it away for later (and so recognise later that I actually
> created the post).
>
> Is there a way to lengthen the timeout past 5 seconds for xmlrpclib?
>
> Or
>
> Will using a backend make the timeout longer / let me set a longer timeout?
>
> Or
>
> Is there something different/better I should be doing to talk to WordPress?
>
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