sqla on app engine?

[Iain Duncan]

Hey folks, just saw the announcement that google appengine now has an sql backend:

http://code.google.com/apis/sql/

I don't know near enough about app engine to understand whether this means we could use SQLAlchemy on it now, would love to hear from those who do!

thanks

Iain

[Michael Bayer]

we have a ticket from a ways back referring to the task of getting this to work on GAE:

http://www.sqlalchemy.org/trac/ticket/1958

I was having some communication with Wesley Chun at the time but somehow the task fell by the wayside.

However, the good news is that we're in very good shape to support their backend, which is a MySQL derivation.    Depending on the specifics of their implementation we may be able to re-use sqlalchemy.connectors.mysqldb or similar - in any case it would likely be based on mysql.dialects.mysql and not require very much code at all.    It's just a matter of someone getting a basic "hello world" test running on GAE to get started.    I'm just not sure how one runs unit tests on GAE.

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[Iain Duncan]

Awesome, thanks for the update MIke.

Iain

[Thomas G. Willis]

you can run unittests against the sdk. there's a couple of setup things that have to be done though. I use the NoseGAE plugin for it. 

I don't think sql on gae is available in the sdk yet so there's not really much that can be done at the moment.

When it does become available I'd be happy to lend a hand where I could.