Questions tagged [google-app-engine]
Google App Engine is a cloud computing technology for hosting web applications in Google-managed data centers. Google App Engine is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering for Java, Python, Go, Node.js, and PHP in its standard environment. Runtimes for a few other languages as well as docker-based custom runtimes are supported in its flexible environment.
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What is the difference between Google App Engine and Google Compute Engine?
I was wondering what the difference between App Engine & Compute Engine are. Can anyone explain the difference to me?
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How can I use the variables from "views.py" in JavasScript, "<script></script>" in a Django template?
When I render a page using the Django template renderer, I can pass in a dictionary variable containing various values to manipulate them in the page using {{ myVar }}.
Is there a way to access the ...
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How to use UTF-8 in resource properties with ResourceBundle
I need to use UTF-8 in my resource properties using Java's ResourceBundle. When I enter the text directly into the properties file, it displays as mojibake.
My app runs on Google App Engine.
Can ...
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How to use Google App Engine with my own naked domain (not subdomain)?
After hours of reading about and experimenting with DNS records I can access my Google App Engine app via these URLs:
myappid.appspot.com
www.myappid.myowndomain.example
What does not work:
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Spring Boot - Cannot determine embedded database driver class for database type NONE
This is the error that is thrown when trying to run my web app:
[INFO] WARNING: Nested in org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'org.springframework....
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How to think in data stores instead of databases?
As an example, Google App Engine uses Google Datastore, not a standard database, to store data. Does anybody have any tips for using Google Datastore instead of databases? It seems I've trained my ...
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Why is my Python App Engine app using the Translate API getting an error of ImportError: No module named apiclient.discovery?
I got this error in Google App Engine's Python have used Google Translate API,
But I don't know how to fix,
<module>
from apiclient.discovery import build
ImportError: No module named apiclient....
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"Content is not allowed in prolog" when parsing perfectly valid XML on GAE
I've been beating my head against this absolutely infuriating bug for the last 48 hours, so I thought I'd finally throw in the towel and try asking here before I throw my laptop out the window.
I'm ...
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Choosing Java vs Python on Google App Engine
Currently Google App Engine supports both Python & Java. Java support is less mature. However, Java seems to have a longer list of libraries and especially support for Java bytecode regardless of ...
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Google Cloud Bigtable vs Google Cloud Datastore
What is the difference between Google Cloud Bigtable and Google Cloud Datastore / App Engine datastore, and what are the main practical advantages/disadvantages? AFAIK Cloud Datastore is build on top ...
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DistutilsOptionError: must supply either home or prefix/exec-prefix -- not both
I've been usually installed python packages through pip.
For Google App Engine, I need to install packages to another target directory.
I've tried:
pip install -I flask-restful --target ./lib
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How to delete a project from Google Cloud Console
It seems that, from Google Cloud Console there is no way to delete a project.
Note: As of 2013-09-19 this is no longer an issue because
Google had fixed it.
- Now you can click on the check box ...
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What does the 'u' symbol mean in front of string values? [duplicate]
Yes in short i would like to know why am I seeing a u in front of my keys and values.
I am rendering a form. The form has check-box for the particular label and one text field for the ip address. I ...
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Deleting a Google App Engine application
Is it possible to delete an GAE application after it has been created?
I made a mistake while typing the name and now have a dummy application that I haven't been able to remove.
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Error parsing yaml file: mapping values are not allowed here
I want to upload an app to Google App Engine:
I get this
Error parsing yaml file:
mapping values are not allowed here
in "/home/antonio/Desktop/ATI/climate-change/app.yaml", line 2, column 8
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Feedback on using Google App Engine? [closed]
Looking to do a very small, quick 'n dirty side project. I like the fact that the Google App Engine is running on Python with Django built right in - gives me an excuse to try that platform... but my ...
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Google App Engine: Is it possible to do a Gql LIKE query?
Simple one really. In SQL, if I want to search a text field for a couple of characters, I can do:
SELECT blah FROM blah WHERE blah LIKE '%text%'
The documentation for App Engine makes no mention of ...
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Securely storing environment variables in GAE with app.yaml
I need to store API keys and other sensitive information in app.yaml as environment variables for deployment on GAE. The issue with this is that if I push app.yaml to GitHub, this information becomes ...
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How to delete all datastore in Google App Engine?
Does anyone know how to delete all datastore in Google App Engine?
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Project structure for Google App Engine
I started an application in Google App Engine right when it came out, to play with the technology and work on a pet project that I had been thinking about for a long time but never gotten around to ...
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Class JavaLaunchHelper is implemented in both. One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined [duplicate]
Have a simple Google App Engine Web Application Project on Eclipse Kepler on Mac OS X with java version "1.7.0_45"
Running into the following :
objc[5398]: Class JavaLaunchHelper is implemented in ...
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Flask vs webapp2 for Google App Engine
I'm starting new Google App Engine application and currently considering two frameworks: Flask and webapp2. I'm rather satisfied with built-in webapp framework that I've used for my previous App ...
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HTTP Get with 204 No Content: Is that normal
Is it a normal occurrence for an HTTP GET Request to have a response with status code 204 - No Content? Like, is this semantically correct concerning what an HTTP GET is supposed to accomplish? I know ...
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How do you validate a URL with a regular expression in Python?
I'm building an app on Google App Engine. I'm incredibly new to Python and have been beating my head against the following problem for the past 3 days.
I have a class to represent an RSS Feed and in ...
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When to choose App Engine over Cloud Functions?
Sorry, if this is a naive question, but i've watched bunch of talks from google's staff and still don't understand why on earth i would use AE instead of CF?
If i understood it correctly, the whole ...
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File path to resource in our war/WEB-INF folder?
I've got a file in my war/WEB-INF folder of my app engine project. I read in the FAQs that you can read a file from there in a servlet context. I don't know how to form the path to the resource though:...
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AmazonS3 putObject with InputStream length example
I am uploading a file to S3 using Java - this is what I got so far:
AmazonS3 s3 = new AmazonS3Client(new BasicAWSCredentials("XX","YY"));
List<Bucket> buckets = s3.listBuckets();
s3.putObject(...
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How to transfer Google Cloud project ownership?
I would like to transfer ownership of Google Cloud project completely. By completely I mean rather than sharing ownership between multiple users, removing my account from project. Is there any way to ...
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Google app engine or amazon web services [closed]
I am a newbie to us cloud hosting. I want to know which is better to start with, either Google app engine or Amazon web service.
My questions are:
My application is based on java, Database is MySQL. ...
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java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.ServletContainer
I am trying to build a simple hello world application for two days using Jersey + Google app engine. For simple AppEngine project I followed these tutorials and both works just fine
https://developers....
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When should one use the following: Amazon EC2, Google App Engine, Microsoft Azure and Salesforce.com? [closed]
I am asking this in very general sense. Both from cloud provider and cloud consumer's perspective. Also the question is not for any specific kind of application (in fact the intention is to know which ...
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Why use Django on Google App Engine?
When researching Google App Engine (GAE), it's clear that using Django is wildly popular for developing in Python on GAE. I've been scouring the web to find information on the costs and benefits of ...
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Is there possibility to host multiple applications with Google App Engine?
Do I need to create for each new Google App Engine app new project? Or is there other way to have multiple apps in one project?
EDIT: removed "extra question"
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Get root password for Google Cloud Engine VM
I just finished installing cPanel in a CentOS VM in Google Cloud Engine and cPanel said the default username is root and the default password is the server's root password.
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Converting byte array to String (Java)
I'm writing a web application in Google app Engine. It allows people to basically edit html code that gets stored as an .html file in the blobstore.
I'm using fetchData to return a byte[] of all the ...
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How to browse local Java App Engine datastore?
It seems there is no equivalent of Python App Engine's _ah/admin for the Java implementation of Google App Engine.
Is there a manual way I can browse the datastore? Where are the files to be found on ...
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Visual Studio Code pylint: Unable to import 'protorpc'
I'm using pylint in Visual Studio Code to develop a Google App Engine (GAE) Cloud Endpoint API in Python. I'm unable to resolve a lint error. I don't know what's causing the error, but at a guess, ...
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Built in Python hash() function
Windows XP, Python 2.5:
hash('http://stackoverflow.com') Result: 1934711907
Google App Engine (http://shell.appspot.com/):
hash('http://stackoverflow.com') Result: -5768830964305142685
Why is that?...
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JSON serialization of Google App Engine models
I've been searching for quite a while with no success. My project isn't using Django, is there a simple way to serialize App Engine models (google.appengine.ext.db.Model) into JSON or do I need to ...
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RESTful application on Google App Engine Java?
I would like to create a RESTful app on Google App Engine. I would like to provide XML and JSON services. I have briefly experimented with Restlet, Resteasy, and Jersey. I haven't had much success ...
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JDO vs JPA for Java on Google App Engine
I want to develop my project on Google App Engine with Struts2. For the database I have two options JPA and JDO. Will you guys please suggest me on it? Both are new for me and I need to learn them. So ...
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How can I parse JSON in Google App Engine?
I'd like to parse a JSON string into an object under Google App Engine (python). What do you recommend? Something to encode/stringify would be nice too. Is what you recommend built in, or a library ...
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When to use Google App Engine Flex vs Google Cloud Run
I want to deploy containerized code using one of Google's serverless options. From what I understand Google has two options for this:
Google App Engine Flexible Environment
Google Cloud Run (in beta)...
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Upload files in Google App Engine
I am planning to create a web app that allows users to downgrade their visual studio project files. However, It seems Google App Engine accepts files uploading and flat file storing on the Google ...
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Cannot set Java breakpoint in Intellij IDEA
I'm trying to put breakpoints into the GoogleAppEngine sources (SDK 1.7.0) but IDEA Ultimate (11.0.2) just keeps telling me Warning: No executable code found at line 482 in class com.google.appengine....
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UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xef' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
I want to parse my XML document. So I have stored my XML document as below
class XMLdocs(db.Expando):
id = db.IntegerProperty()
name=db.StringProperty()
content=db.BlobProperty()
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How do I query in GQL using the entity key
How do I write a query against the entity key using GQL in the Google App Engine Data Viewer ?
In the viewer, the first column (Id/Name) displays as name=_1, in the detail view it shows the key as
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PyCharm logging output colours
I'm using PyCharm to develop a GAE app in Mac OS X. Is there any way to display colours in the run console of PyCharm?
I've set a handler to output colours in ansi format. Then, I've added the ...
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Spring - Redirect after POST (even with validation errors)
I'm trying to figure out how to "preserve" the BindingResult so it can be used in a subsequent GET via the Spring <form:errors> tag. The reason I want to do this is because of Google App Engine'...
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