Re: Datastore Admin not working for long application names?

[Oliver Sturm]

Update: I found that in the case where the page remains blank, I can pick the inner frame URL from the HTML and go to the page directly, and then it works. It doesn't seem to work while used in the context of the dashboard. 

Oliver

On Tuesday, November 6, 2012 7:14:02 PM UTC, Oliver Sturm wrote:

Hi,

I have a few applications in GAE. In one of them, I can access the Datastore Admin page in the dashboard just fine. However, for two other applications it is not working - curiously in two different ways. For one of the applications, the Datastore Admin page always remains blank - it seems to load for a moment, but nothing ever happens and it stays white. 

The second application has a different issue: the auto-generated server name for it is too long to be considered "legal" by the DNS name lookup. The browser (Chrome) just says that the DNS lookup failed for the name ah-builtin-python-bundle-dot-latest-dot-01234567890123456789012345.appspot.com (I'm replacing the actual app name part of the DNS name with digits, but yes, the app name is 26 chars long). Testing with the host command from a Unix command prompt, I get an error message declaring the name "not legal".

Is this a known problem? Why am I allowed to use app names this long if a standard mechanism like Datastore Admin is not going to work if the name is too long? Is there a workaround, other than renaming my app?

The second app for which the page also doesn't work seems to be just within the limits, btw - DNS lookup seems to be working for the name in that case. Any ideas what might be wrong in that case?

Cheers

Oliver