Best way to read/write text data

[Alex V.]

Hi, i'm trying to figure out best way to do this. I basically want to
create a pastebin alternative on app engine, whats the best way to
read/write such paste into on an App Engine stack? Should i use
blobstore or try to dump them into data store? Any feedback is well
appreciated, thanks!

[Barry Hunter]

Whats wrong with the datastore? Seems to be what its designed for -
storing data.

If its the 1Mb entity limit, surely its not very often that a paste
will be bigger than that. And when it is just break it into parts, and
have 'next part' pointer on the main entity.

While there are experimental apis for writing (and reading from) the
blobstore, they sound more trouble than just using datastore.

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[alex]

I'd definitely use blobstore for "pastes" and keep a reference to that blob in the datastore along with metadata you might have attached to that blob.