I would like to wipe out all data for a specific kind in Google App Engine. What is the best way to do this? I wrote a delete script (hack), but since there is so much data is timeout’s out after a few hundred records.
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I would like to wipe out all data for a specific kind in Google App Engine. What is the best way to do this? I wrote a delete script (hack), but since there is so much data is timeout’s out after a few hundred records.
The official answer from Google is that you have to delete in chunks spread over multiple requests. You can use AJAX, meta refresh, or request your URL from a script until there are no entities left.