Awesome description, thanks for posting!
On Oct 29, 5:32 am, JohnnyFive <[email protected]> wrote:
> This just started working for me today. It's not that intuitive, but
> easy once you understand.
>
> First, you need your image. PNG, GIF, JPG, doesn't matter.
>
> For examples: my project is a dice roller robot. It is located in a
> directory called "So-Random", which my main.py etc.
>
> Create a folder in your main project named "assets". (Mine is /So-
> Random/assets/profile.png)
>
> Then, open your app.yaml. This is where I was screwing up. Imagine
> this file creates "shortcuts" that get parsed from the top down. Since
> our image is a static file, we need to specify we'd like it to be
> uploaded, and to where. Along with that, any requests from the
> webserver will follow these rules when looking for static files.
>
> Every app.yaml should start with something close to:
>
> - url: .*
> script: main.py
>
> If that is the FIRST entry, and we add anything after it, then all our
> *.jpgs and *.gifs will instead redirect to main.py. If you don't
> understand why, read
> this:http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/config/appconfig.html
>
> So, we need to add a rule BEFORE the wildcard that tells where to get
> our robots picture. In our example, this is what we should have:
>
> application: so-random
> version: 1
> runtime: python
> api_version: 1
>
> handlers:
> - url: /assets
> static_dir: assets
> - url: .*
> script: main.py
>
> Then, finally, the code inside our main.py. I'm not going to get deep
> into explaining this, as it's rather self-explanatory:
>
> if __name__ == '__main__':
> myRobot = robot.Robot('SO',
> image_url='http://so-random.appspot.com/assets/profile.png',
> version='1.0973',
> profile_url='http://so-random.appspot.com/')
>
> So the "image_url" should specify that your image be loaded from /
> assets/imagename
>
> There you go!
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