Yes, but the advantage of an automatic conversion on deploment would still be transparent compatibility across all platforms, which is not a bad thing to have :)
Also, I wished we had a sort of standardized way of having a @local_only or @auth.ip_in(...) decorator of sorts (maybe we already do?). On Jul 23, 3:02 am, Vidul Petrov <[email protected]> wrote: > It turnes out that the GAE cron daemon does the same work if it comes > to a method invocation (should be a valid URL). > I.e. there is no need for conversion. The problem, as I see it, is the > method protection, what I did is something like: > > # the GAE cron file: > # /cron.yaml > cron: > - description: daily note addition > url: /test/default/insert_a_note > schedule: every 1 days > > # the default.py controller in init app > # for some reasons Google uses this ip: > valid_inner_ip = "0.1.0.1" > > def insert_a_note(): > if request.env.remote_addr != valid_inner_ip: > redirect(URL(r=request,f="index")) > ... > db.note.insert(name=some_new_name) > ... > > That's all. > > On Jul 21, 1:16 pm, AchipA <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hm, if I understand correctly, we just need a smart crontab ->cron.yaml > > converter then, right ? I can imagine other people needing > > that too, so there might alredy be such things in the open, could > > someone verify that ? > > > On Jul 21, 11:58 am, Hans Donner <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >gaehas its own implemementation > > > > -http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/config/cron.html > > > -http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/config/queue.html > > > -http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/taskqueue/ > > > > perhaps some kind of remapping (like cache) can do the trick > > > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:39, AchipA<[email protected]> wrote: > > > > >GAEis not supported at the moment, but only because I don't use it > > > > and there was no particular interest in it so far. IfGAEhas no means > > > > of startingcron-style or long running processes, softcronshould > > > > stil work, provided someone implements a locking mechanism that works > > > > withGAE. The current implementation uses file operations as they are > > > > universal on all platforms (i.e. move file is atomic - that's what the > > > > infamouscron.master is for). Now, AFAIK this would not work onGAE, > > > > but if you give/write an example that would replace that conditional > > > > in aGAE-friendly way it should be no fus to gaincrononGAEout of > > > > the box. > > > > > On Jul 21, 7:03 am, Vidul Petrov <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Probably this topic has been discussed in the past, but I wasn't able > > > >> to find anything. > > > >> Thecronscript works fine (it's implemented as a controller method) > > > >> unless running in theGAEtesting environment. > > > >> The username in app.yml is web2py, the same goes for the username in > > > >> "crontab" file. > > > > >> Thank you for the help. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" 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/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
