It's why you don't put any significant payload in the Task. You put it in a Datastore entity and use the key as the payload.
Or if you really don't care if it fails, put it in Memcache and use the key as the payload. On Tuesday, May 24, 2016 at 5:33:06 PM UTC-5, barryhunter wrote: > > Possibly no real advantage, just an alternative :) > > I suppose, there is a small risk of exceeding the Task Queue storage free > quota, but seems unlikely. > > On 24 May 2016 at 22:59, 'Alex Martelli' via Google App Engine < > [email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Not sure what advantage you'd envision for XMPP here -- this kind of job >> (handing out a task to a worker) is exactly what task queues were designed >> for. >> >> Alex >> >> On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 2:51 PM, Barry Hunter <[email protected] >> <javascript:>> wrote: >> >>> Or maybe even use XMPP, to 'chat' with itself. >>> https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/java/xmpp/ >>> >>> The front end just sends a chat message. >>> >>> The backend worker subscribes to the channel, and performs the POSTs >>> >>> On 24 May 2016 at 22:44, Barry Hunter <[email protected] <javascript:> >>> > wrote: >>> >>>> Maybe you could use the Task Queue? inserts should generally by quick. >>>> >>>> Then a 'worker' can process tasks in background - performing the actual >>>> POSTs >>>> >>>> On 24 May 2016 at 09:17, Ashley Finney <[email protected] <javascript:>> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> In GAE I want to fire a Post message at a URL but I do not want to >>>>> wait for the response, the call should be as quick and >>>>> cheap (cpu/memory/cost) as possible. All I'm doing is using this to send >>>>> a >>>>> message to another server. I don't mind if I lose messages. >>>>> Instead of using "appengine/urlfetch" is there another method? >>>>> >>>>> Many 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] <javascript:>. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >>>>> <javascript:>. >>>>> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. >>>>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/f2962eeb-8fb7-4880-865d-ceaabb93bfc3%40googlegroups.com >>>>> >>>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/f2962eeb-8fb7-4880-865d-ceaabb93bfc3%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>>> . >>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>> -- >>> 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] <javascript:>. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >>> <javascript:>. >>> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/CAJCAUuJYCSksmDhzy5SnN8Nh%2BzSGPQfPiRzZKvA8th02eg94Tg%40mail.gmail.com >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/CAJCAUuJYCSksmDhzy5SnN8Nh%2BzSGPQfPiRzZKvA8th02eg94Tg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- >> 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] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/CAE46Be8U--uj3pZ1%3D%2B3SD4dhLBwq%2BbziPj8dCxBCrzP8beh8VA%40mail.gmail.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/CAE46Be8U--uj3pZ1%3D%2B3SD4dhLBwq%2BbziPj8dCxBCrzP8beh8VA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/eaa75c9a-418b-4cb7-9b9a-109d22e24135%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
