[go-nuts] Does the local development server (goapp serve) emulate / support Cloud Storage?

+google-appengine-go, golang-nuts to BCC

I think the folks on the google-appengine-go mailing list can answer this.

That's correct. If you use the file package locally, your files will end
up in the blobstore. This does make it a pain to "manually" check what
files are there (via the admin console) but it isn't *too* much work to
make your own little admin-only handler where you paste in a bucket name
and an object name and the handler spits out the blobstore URL
corresponding to that object. The relevant bits of code would be something
like:



func FilesApiPath(bucket, filename string) string {
  return "/gs/" + bucket + "/" + filename
}


[...]

// When running on devappserver, GCS files are stored locally in the blobstore
gcsPath := FilesApiPath(bucket, filename)
blobKey, err := blobstore.BlobKeyForFile(ctx, gcsPath)
if err != nil {
  return "", err
}

return "http://localhost:8000/blobstore/blob/" + string(blobKey) + "?display=inline", nil