My app engine wishlist

[dflorey]

I'm working with app engine (Java) for quite a while now and as
Christmas is near, it is time to publish my wishlist:

Improvements in the admin interface:
- Logs:
Right now when scrolling through the pages after a while the
formatting is gone and the back link is not working any more
Respect the users timezone. It's very annoying to recalculate the
timestamps to find log statements
"Delete log" to start a fresh log from scratch
"Download logs" button right from the admin interface

- Cron Jobs:
Let us change the cron settings right from the console. Would be
great for debugging purposes

- Task Qeues:
Please give us a "delete all" button to delete all tasks from a
specific queue
Better paging through the tasks (ordered by ETA etc.)

- Indexes:
"Delete index" right from the admin interface would be awesome

- Data viewer:
Please show the Key(name or id) in the data grid from the parent
entity when entity has ancestors
"Delete all" button for the whole datastore
"Delete all" button for a certain kind of entities
Improve GQL to query entities by key / parent
Editing entities often leads to "Internal server error"
Backup/Restore of datastore as .zip right from the admin interface
(or store backup on some Google servers)

Improvements in the SDK:
Don't know if this works with python, but it would be cool to be able
to delete entities based on a query without fetching all keys and
deleting by keys (e.g. something like a super-fast DELETE * FROM kind)

Some more free CPU quota ;-)

That's it. Let's see what Santa Claus can do for me...

Cheers,
Daniel

[Verilocos W]

This is really a good wishlist. I also wish many items on that! However, 10, 11, 12, yeah three years. Santa Claus did not hear us! Is GAE obsoleted?

[Brian Quinlan]

Hi,

On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 8:10 PM, Verilocos W <veri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is really a good wishlist. I also wish many items on that! However, 10,
> 11, 12, yeah three years. Santa Claus did not hear us! Is GAE obsoleted?
>

> On Thursday, October 22, 2009 6:11:28 PM UTC+8, Daniel Florey wrote:
>>
>> I'm working with app engine (Java) for quite a while now and as
>> Christmas is near, it is time to publish my wishlist:
>>
>> Improvements in the admin interface:
>> - Logs:
>> Right now when scrolling through the pages after a while the
>> formatting is gone and the back link is not working any more
>> Respect the users timezone. It's very annoying to recalculate the
>> timestamps to find log statements
>> "Delete log" to start a fresh log from scratch
>> "Download logs" button right from the admin interface
>>
>> - Cron Jobs:
>> Let us change the cron settings right from the console. Would be
>> great for debugging purposes

What would happen the next time you run appcfg update?

>>
>> - Task Qeues:
>> Please give us a "delete all" button to delete all tasks from a
>> specific queue

Does the "Purge Queue" button not do what you want?

>> Better paging through the tasks (ordered by ETA etc.)

There is an "Order by: Task Name | Task ETA" control above the list of
tasks in the queue viewer. Is that not what you want?

>> - Indexes:
>> "Delete index" right from the admin interface would be awesome

What would happen the next time you run appcfg update?

>> - Data viewer:
>> Please show the Key(name or id) in the data grid from the parent
>> entity when entity has ancestors
>> "Delete all" button for the whole datastore
>> "Delete all" button for a certain kind of entities
>> Improve GQL to query entities by key / parent

You can query by ancestor. See:
https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/datastore/gqlreference

>> Editing entities often leads to "Internal server error"
>> Backup/Restore of datastore as .zip right from the admin interface
>> (or store backup on some Google servers)
>>
>> Improvements in the SDK:
>> Don't know if this works with python, but it would be cool to be able
>> to delete entities based on a query without fetching all keys and
>> deleting by keys (e.g. something like a super-fast DELETE * FROM kind)
>>
>> Some more free CPU quota ;-)
>>
>> That's it. Let's see what Santa Claus can do for me...

It would be awesome if you could fine issues for these feature requests!

Cheers,
Brian

>> Cheers,
>> Daniel
>
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