[Chicago] web2py on appengine

Cosmin Stejerean cstejerean at gmail.com
Tue Apr 22 07:48:31 CEST 2008


i'll have to check it out. any chance of making sessions work
(probably using the AppEngine data store as a backend)?

- Cosmin

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 11:52 PM, Massimo Di Pierro
<mdipierro at cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
> Here is a version of web2py that works on appengine
>
>  http://mdp.cti.depaul.edu/examples/static/web2py_for_appengine.zip
>
>   if and only if....
>
>  1) you do not use the web2py ORM, you can use the appengine one
>  2) you do not use admin (since you cannot edit files)
>  3) you do not use cache.disk (same reason as before)
>  4) you do not use sessions (response.session_id=None)
>  5) you do not bytecode compile applications
>
>  try:
>
>    unzip web2py_for_appengine.zip
>    ./runme.sh
>
>    then visit: http://127.0.0.1:8080/welcome
>
>  While this works on the appengine we are running tests to make sure we did
> not break anything else on "other" platforms.
>  We are also working on porting the web2py ORM to the appengine which should
> be trivial. As soon as this is done this will go in trunk.
>
>  Enjoy!
>
>  Massimo
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