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Nick Johnson (Google)  
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 More options Jun 23 2009, 10:04 am
From: "Nick Johnson (Google)" <nick.john...@google.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:04:48 +0100
Local: Tues, Jun 23 2009 10:04 am
Subject: Re: [google-appengine] Re: download_data: How do we deal with blobs?
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On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Jonathan Feinberg <e.e.c...@gmail.com>wrote:

> On Jun 23, 9:57 am, "Nick Johnson (Google)" <nick.john...@google.com>
> wrote:
> > Raw strings (that is, ones that aren't unicode) can contain any data,
> > including blobs, and all the conversion functions should return raw
> strings.
> > You can then override output_entities to output the data to the format of
> > your choice.

> Huzzah! Thank you.

> Am I write in my understanding that by the time these Exporter methods
> are called, the entities have already been transferred in some opaque
> (and presumably efficient) form from GAE to the client?

Correct - the bulkloader uses remote_api. If you want, of course, you can
write your own importer, exporter, or anything else, using remote_api.

-Nick Johnson


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