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Flask and Google App Engine caching

Flask and Google App Engine caching by Robert Moskal
- Re: [flask] Flask and Google App Engine caching by Kamal Gill

Flask and Google App Engine caching

From:: Robert Moskal
Date:: 2011-11-03 @ 17:16

Greetings all:

I've been enjoying using flask to create a little restful web service that
will run in the google app engine.  I've been reading that the app engine
will cache handler scripts if they are in a file with a main() function.
 I'm curious as to whether flask applications in the google app engine can
take advantage of this.

Thanks and regards,

Robert Moskal
___________
Robert Moskal
Most Media
Brooklyn, USA

Re: [flask] Flask and Google App Engine caching

From:: Kamal Gill
Date:: 2011-11-04 @ 05:05

Hi Robert,

Flask apps on GAE *do* take advantage of app caching if the 
'run_wsgi_app(FLASK_APP)' stanza is in the main() function.

See the flask-appengine-template boilerplate project code at 
https://github.com/kamalgill/flask-appengine-template/blob/master/src/main.py
for an example.

Note: app caching will change a bit in the Python 2.7 runtime, as 
described by Nick Johnson at
http://blog.notdot.net/2011/10/Migrating-to-Python-2-7-part-1-Threadsafe

I hope to update my Flask on GAE boilerplate code when Py 2.7 support is 
enabled in dev_appserver 

HTH,
Kamal

On Nov 3, 2011, at 10:16 AM, Robert Moskal wrote:

> Greetings all:
> 
> I've been enjoying using flask to create a little restful web service 
that will run in the google app engine.  I've been reading that the app 
engine will cache handler scripts if they are in a file with a main() 
function.  I'm curious as to whether flask applications in the google app 
engine can take advantage of this.
> 
> Thanks and regards,
> 
> Robert Moskal
> ___________
> Robert Moskal
> Most Media
> Brooklyn, USA