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pythongoogle-app-engine
Sergey Stolyarov
Sergey Stolyarov

Reputation: 2667

Upload data to BlobStore using remote api

Is it possible to upload blob to blobstore using remote API (not the standard upload scheme)?

I want to write backup/restore script for my application and blobstore is the only thing that doesn't work.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1020

Answers (3)

Kwame
Kwame

Reputation: 1097

There's a better solution with the new files API: http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/blobstore/overview.html

This works well for me. Here is some sample code:

from __future__ import with_statement
from google.appengine.api import files
from google.appengine.ext import blobstore

def get_blob_key(self, data, _type):
    # Create the file
    file_name = files.blobstore.create(mime_type = _type)

    # Open the file and write to it
    with files.open(file_name, 'a') as f:
        f.write(data)

    # Finalize the file. Do this before attempting to read it.
    files.finalize(file_name)

    # Get the file's blob key
    blob_key = files.blobstore.get_blob_key(file_name)
    return blob_key

Upvotes: 0

Swizec Teller
Swizec Teller

Reputation: 2322

I once solved the problem of programmatically uploading to the blobstore and wrote a short tutorial/explanation for it on my blog. Hope it's useful: http://swizec.com/blog/programatically-uploading-to-blobstore-in-python/swizec/1423

Upvotes: 1

leoluk
leoluk

Reputation: 12981

Blobstore access over Remote API was added three days ago:

  • Remote API now supports the Blobstore API. (Changelog)

remote_api works at the lowest level of the datastore, so once you've set up the stub, you don't have to worry about the fact that you're operating on a remote datastore: With a few caveats, it works exactly the same as if you were accessing the datastore directly. (App Engine Help)

Upvotes: 1

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