[google-appengine] How to implement downtime for my Java app

2011-10-14 Thread Arvind Rao
Hello there I have a Java-based app hosted on GAE. I want to schedule daily downtime for my app to clean up the datastore. a) Is there any way I can bring down the app (i.e. stop serving requests from users and cron jobs), so that I can do a manual clean up using the Datastore Viewer or

Re: [google-appengine] How to implement downtime for my Java app

2011-10-14 Thread Timofey Koolin
I see 2 ways: 1. create empty version for your application with return OK (or other text) for any request and do not do any else. For dowtime you will make empty as default version, than return your usual version. 2. Make any property such as downtime in memcache db and check it for every request