First to use blobstore you have to enabled billing. Yes for your approach i think the best is to use blobstore in gae.
Take a look to this: http://www.web2pyslices.com/main/slices/take_slice/63 And to display images use the new introduce function get_serving_url is really fast and doesnt consume much resources you have to store blob_key) def _response_image(table_name='images',image_size=64): if request.env.web2py_runtime_gae: from google.appengine.ext import blobstore from google.appengine.api import images if not request.args: raise HTTP(404) myimages=db(db[table_name].image==request.args[0]).select() if myimages: myimage = myimages[0] if myimage.blob_key: if GAE_SERVING_IMAGE: image_serving = images.get_serving_url(myimage.blob_key,image_size) return image_serving On 15 sep, 07:08, István Gazsi <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everybody! > > As part of a website I try to make an image gallery in web2py. The > database model is simple: there is a 100x100 thumbnail, the whole > picture, and (optionally) the image's title. > > The website runs on Google App Engine and web2py v1.83.2 for now. > There are multiple problems with it. First, I can only upload images > under 1MB. Second, the gallery page loads very slowly (I make a select > for only 25 records in web2py), and in the GAE logs there is always > warnings about memory usage. > > For the first problem the solution would be using the GAE blobstore, > but I don't really know how to do that. Is it implemented in web2py? > For the second problem I don't know the solution. > > If you would do an image gallery like mine from the ground up, how > would you do that? And do you have any advices about my problems? > > Thanks in advance!
