In the Blobstore documentation page, the file-like API used to have a "(Experimental)" by the subheading. That was replaced by the deprecation notice.
https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/blobstore/#Writing_Files_to_the_Blobstore which as you see, it was last updated June 20th. On Tuesday, August 6, 2013 7:50:44 PM UTC-4, Andy wrote: > > Where do you see that? > > If you look at the current services and features it's not listed > experimental: > https://developers.google.com/appengine/features/ > > If you look at the release notes it was never mentioned as experimental > even when released with other new APIs that were marked experimental: > > http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2011/03/announcing-app-engine-143-release_30.html > https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/wiki/SdkReleaseNotes > > > > > > > On Tuesday, August 6, 2013 5:48:56 PM UTC-4, rdodev wrote: >> >> Andy, >> >> The file-like API for blob store is not covered by that deprecation >> policy because it was never in production to begin with. It was provided as >> "experimental". It sucks and it hit us really hard, but we also understand >> their decision and we already have the migration to GCS in our backlog. >> >> On Tuesday, August 6, 2013 5:09:01 PM UTC-4, Andy wrote: >>> >>> Hi Chris, >>> I thought production API's were available for the greater of 1 year or >>> 2015 per the prior deprecation policy: >>> >>> >>> http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2012/04/app-engine-and-googles-new-deprecation.html >>> >>> Can you confirm that is still the case? >>> >>> It would be really nice to keep the blobstore around. Focusing on >>> deprecating APIs instead of new product features can be a real pain. We're >>> still trying to migrate off M/S but cannot yet due to a bug in the >>> migration tool related to the number of namespaces. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Andy >>> >>> >>> >>> On Tuesday, July 30, 2013 8:17:21 PM UTC-4, Chris Ramsdale wrote: >>>> >>>> while there's currently no defined date for decommissioning this API, >>>> we are committed to supporting it throughout the remainder of the year >>>> (2013). please don't hesitate to reach out to me directly ( >>>> [email protected]), if you have further questions (this thread is >>>> fine as well). >>>> >>>> -- Chris >>>> >>>> Product Manager, Google App Engine >>>> >>>> >>>> On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 6:37 AM, rdodev <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17903025/gae-blobstore-file-like-api-deprecation-timeline-py-2-7-runtime >>>>> >>>>> This is a question for the App Engine team. >>>>> >>>>> Last week we realized that the App Engine team had marked the >>>>> file-like API for writing and reading to the blobstore as being >>>>> deprecated >>>>> and likely to be removed in the future. We have quite a bit of >>>>> infrastructure relying on that API that now we need to port to the >>>>> alternative they suggest (Google Cloud Storage) and this is not a trivial >>>>> effort (especially considering our current backlog). So the question is: >>>>> how soon will this file-like API be unavailable? It's fairly important >>>>> for >>>>> us to know as depending on the answer, we might shuffle our backlog to >>>>> prioritize the porting of using the Blobstore to GCS. >>>>> >>>>> Thanks. >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>> Groups "Google App Engine" group. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>>> an email to [email protected]. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. >>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
