Downloading Google App Engine Database

Question

I had created web application and deploy it in Google App Engine after I created table(entity) in Google App Engine datastore. My doubt is it possible to download the entity

Answer 1

I had a simple requirement to dump entities from GAE Java based App and restore them to local datastore. I could finally do it with following steps

1. Add RemoteApiServlet to web.xml and deploy the app

   
       RemoteApi
       com.google.apphosting.utils.remoteapi.RemoteApiServlet
   
   
        RemoteApi
        /remote_api
   
   

2. Download Google App Engine SDK for Python and unzip

3. Use bulkloader.py to dump the datastore from GAE

   bulkloader.py --dump --application=s~appid --url=http://appid.appspot.com/remote_api --filename=xyz.dump

   --application is given as s~appid i.e. s tilda appid as app was using HR datastore. For Master/Slave datasotre plain appid will do.

   bulkload.py will prompt for login credentials for app. On authentication it will dump the entities to the file specified.

4. To restore use following command

   bulkloader.py --restore --application=appid --url=http://127.0.0.1:8888/remote_api --filename=xyz.dump

   For local credentials use email admin and blank password. Even for HRD local datastore use plain appid (s~appid restores data but entities can't be accessed in Development Console - Datastore viewer. I don't know why)

   Dump can be restored to same appid or even to a different appid