Question

I have created a set of Models for my database using Python. Now I’d like to rapidly load them with some data — manually. If this were a .NET app, I’d use one of the nifty controls that come with Visual Studio to rapidly connect to the database and bind a grid to it. Then go to town adding data.

What’s the matching way to do this in Python using Google App Engine?

In ASP.NET MVC, they have this new “scaffolding” stuff (part of Entity Framework) that will generate CRUD pages for you. Is there anything like that given a bunch of Model objects in GAE?

P.S. using the handy, dandy command line options –use_sqlite and –datastore_path, I can quickly backup my database in my dev environment once I do this.

Answer 1

If you are using Django on GAE then you can use the Django Administration site:

So what’s Django’s approach to these boring, repetitive tasks? It does
it all for you—in just a couple of lines of code, no less. With
Django, building an admin interface is a solved problem.

It automatically builds CRUD based HTML forms for managing the model.