blobstore

I'm uploading images to the GAE blobstore using create_upload_url uploadURL = blobstore.create_upload_url('/upload') For the purpose of unit testing the gae code, can you simulate the image upload? OR should I insert the image data in my test bed and assume the upload is successful? If so, how do you upload an image to the test bed? Agree with @fredrik on what exactly you're testing there. Anyway, if you're doing some functional/blackbox/similar testing, you could simply use Webtest framework (see post method) and do the actual upload, e.g. payload = [(fieldname, filename)] test_app.post

This is the minimal declaration for the HTML in order to upload a file in Blobstore in the upload_url . What is required with this solution is required to click the Submit button in order the content to be submitted and get redirected. How can I do the post in the background with javascript or jQuery without losing the enctype? <form id="upload_file" action="{{upload_url}}" enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post"> <input type="file" name="file"> <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit"> </form> The jQuery Form plugin allows you to submit multipart forms in the background with Ajax

I have been reading all over stackoverflow concerning datastore vs blobstore for storing and retrieving image files. Everything is pointing towards blobstore except one: privacy and security. In the datastore, the photos of my users are private: I have full control on who gets a blob. In the blobstore, however, anyone who knows the url can conceivable access my users photos? Is that true? Here is a quote that is supposed to give me peace of mind, but it's still not clear. So anyone with the blob key can still access the photos? (from Store Photos in Blobstore or as Blobs in Datastore - Which

When uploading to GCS (Google Cloud Storage) using the BlobStore's createUploadURL function, I can provide a callback together with header data that will be POSTed to the callback URL. There doesn't seem to be a way to do that with GCS's signed URL's I know there is Object Change Notification but that won't allow the user to provide upload specific information in the header of a POST, the way it is possible with createUploadURL's callback. My feeling is, if createUploadURL can do it, there must be a way to do it with signed URL's, but I can't find any documentation on it. I was wondering if

I'm using App Engine's high performance image serving on my site, and I'm able to get everything working properly on both my local machine and in production i.e. I can upload an image and successfully display the images using get_serving_url on the blob key. However, these images don't seem to persist on my development server, i.e. after I come back from a computer restart, the images no longer show up. The development server spits out: images_service_pb.ImagesServiceError.BAD_IMAGE_DATA which I'm guessing is actually because the underlying blobs are no longer there (although this is just a

I'm programatically uploading image files and want to set the filename. When I upload a file via POST, the filename property is set automatically. However when using the method below, the filename is not getting set. image = urllib2.urlopen(url) file_name = files.blobstore.create(mime_type='image/png') with files.open(file_name, 'a') as f: f.write(image.read()) files.finalize(file_name) image_blob_key = files.blobstore.get_blob_key(file_name) Kevin P Parse the filename from the url (see related question here ). Then you can set it by adding an additional parameter to your files.blobstore