[Developers] Update: App Engine Support

[Jason Douglas]

Alex also has a proposed patch for freebase-python that works for him  
and is just awaiting review before getting checked in to Google Code.

-jason


On Jun 11, 2008, at 7:52 PM, Alec Flett wrote:

> The basic problem is that appengine doesn't support the basic Python
> 'urllib' interface upon which most HTTP-based APIs are built,
> including our own 'freebase' package: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/freebase
>
> This means you have to manually do all sorts of things like cookie
> management manually through urlfetch()
>
> Ian Bicking has put together a package called 'appengine-monkey' (https://appengine-monkey.googlecode.com/
> ) that monkey-patches the appengine to provide support for urllib, but
> it's really fragile, and doesn't work with all the 3rd party libraries
> out there.
>
> If you're a python developer interested in appengine, I highly
> recommend you go star that bug to vote for your support...this isn't
> just a freebase issue!
> http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=61
>
> (just click the little star in the upper left hand corner of the  
> bug...)
>
> Alec
>
>
> On Jun 11, 2008, at 10:57 AM, Jason Douglas wrote:
>
>> Unless I missed something, the bug just talks about upgrading to a
>> different library.  What specifically was the issue with using the
>> Freebase APIs via the current urlfetch() method in App Engine?
>>
>> -jason
>>
>> On Jun 10, 2008, at 11:49 PM, Jams Alexander Levy wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for linking to my applications last week!
>>>
>>> If you visited, you've noticed that my apps - like http://testy.appspot.com
>>> - are deployed on Google App Engine. In general, I've been very
>>> pleased with app engine, but it's urlfetch() method for GET and POST
>>> calls is limited, and right now it results in an inability to use
>>> many APIs. I've therefore used MJT for live calls to Freebase.
>>>
>>> If you're interested, here's more information on this issue: http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=61
>>>
>>> I went to work earlier today on porting metaweb.py for app engine
>>> deployment, and using a makeshift replacement for the httplib, I was
>>> able to get it to partially work in the development environment!
>>> Unfortunately, it still doesn't work in the production environment.
>>>
>>> I'm monitoring a few discussions and groups for a fix and keeping my
>>> fingers crossed. Regardless of monopoly politics, I expect App
>>> Engine to soon make it easier to share open-source apps built with
>>> the Freebase platform.
>>>
>>>
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