You would be missing the SQLFORM functionality. You can recover it uwing SQLFORM.factory. That means you have to explicitly declare your forms, accept them and use the google APIs for select/insert/update.
Not that big of a deal but your app would not work without GAE. Massimo On Sep 1, 4:44 am, Benigno <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > I am considering making a web app using GAE. In my previous tries > on simplified models using web2py I have misserably failed, and got > timeouts again and again from google. > > So I have started reading again as many sources as I could about the > datastore, scalability and what works or what doesn't work with GAE. > > Now, I have come to the conclussion that with the kind of use that I > need to do of the datastore, I have to optimise it as much as > possible, and for that I will probably needing to access keys > directly, parents and descendants, polymodels, and lists of keys. And > of course rethinking the way I had thought my DB to be (which was > relationally minded all through). > > The problem now for me, is trying to decide what to do. I very much > would like to use web2py. So how do I do it in a way that I can use > all this?. Looking at other frameworks like Django, I very much like > their app-engine-patch approach in that basically it tells you to use > the google.db and not Djangos models. In my mind it makes sense as it > allows the programmer to optimize as much as he wants for scalability, > and after all, thats one of the main reasons behind choosing GAE. > > So, with the focus of scalability and optimizing in mind, how do > you reckon I should be using web2py with GAE ?. Can I simply use > google's db datastore models on my db.py and just forget about > web2py's models related functionality? (admin, SQLForms?) is there > something big I would be missing by doing so?. Or is there any other > recommended method I could use ?. > > Thanks for your input, > Benigno. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
