Awesome. Thanks so much for the rapid response and advice Nick and Greg! Will look into both solutions.
It's for goofy, short-term, requirement (basically, client wants to run it locally, and needs output on the file system to look at and ingest into another software interface). We'll be writing a daemon outside App Engine to handle this in the longer-term. Gerad On Jun 23, 7:11 pm, "Nick Johnson (Google)" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Gerad, > > While it's possible to do this, as other posters point out, it involves > reaching into the internals of the dev_appserver in ways that may break in > future. You haven't specified why you need to do this, but it seems likely > that writing an external script that does what you need and running it > outside the dev_appserver is a better option. External scripts can even > access your local or production datastore - see the remote_api_shell.py for > an example. > > -Nick Johnson > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Gerad Suyderhoud <[email protected]> wrote: > > Long story, but... I need to be able to write to the filesystem when > > running the development appserver. > > > Anybody know of a way to get around Google's monkey patches preventing > > this? (Again, I only need to do this in development). > > > Notes: > > 1. Yes, I truly do need to write to the file system (file gets picked > > up by another service). > > 2. No, it doesn't need file system write access in production. > > > Thanks in advance for any help > > > -- > > 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. > > -- > Nick Johnson, Developer Programs Engineer, App Engine -- 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.
