GAE can access/edit MySQL locally through web2py. However, since web2py writes the DB metadata to app/databases, the .table files end up stored in GAE virtually (in a table called web2py_filesystem, which preserves the file path as well). Web2py does not seem able to access this table when it comes time to read from /databases.
Is this an actual bug (i.e. need to edit the framework) or is there some method to get the DAL's "folder=path" connection option to properly find the web2py_filesystem table? I tried folder='$HOME/app/databases' (the path GAE creates for web2py_filesystem entries) with no success.
I tried posting this in web2py-users, but it seems like more of a developer issue (assuming it's a bug). I just want to know if it's a bug so I can stop looking for a solution and try to find a workaround. Seems like there should be some easy fix given that everything works on GAE's servers.