I'm working on my first android app that uses a Google DataStore for the back end data storage. I've created a backend store and tested it uses the APIs Explorer and on localhost. I then created a project and deployed the backend to the cloud.
What I was expecting was to use the APIs Explorer to add some global configuration information and test the APIs. I typed in:
https://[projectID].appspot.com/_ah/api/explorer
which brings me to the explorer page but none of the services/endpoints show up.
I currently don't have any security defined for the project.
Can I use the API Explorer on a deployed backend? If so, I'm assuming I missed something in the project setup. Any ideas as to what I may have missed?
Thanks for your insights and answers.
You need to use endpoints.API_EXPLORER_CLIENT_ID in your api class decorator in case you need to view api in your deployed version.
Here's the example
#endpoints.api(name = '<api name>',
version = 'v1',
description = '<description>',
allowed_client_ids = [WEB_CLIENT_ID, ANDROID_CLIENT_ID,
IOS_CLIENT_ID, endpoints.API_EXPLORER_CLIENT_ID],
audiences=[ANDROID_AUDIENCE],
scopes=[endpoints.EMAIL_SCOPE])
Hope this helps you.!
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I am trying to use Google Objectify for Datastore (https://github.com/objectify/objectify). My app is not hosted on GAE, but I still make use of Datastore, so I need to use the remote API. Right now, I use the low level API and connect successfully like this :
DatastoreOptions options = DatastoreOptions.builder()
.projectId("PROJECT_NAME")
.authCredentials(AuthCredentials.createApplicationDefaults()).build();
Datastore client = options.service();
And the library used is http://googlecloudplatform.github.io/gcloud-java/0.2.0/index.html. My application defaults for "AuthCredentials.createApplicationDefaults()" is in my home folder in development as well as on the server.
In the doc I saw for Objectify, I did not see anyway of specifying the connection like above, thus no way of telling to use the credentials file in our home folder. The code I see for Objectify is mostly like this Objectify.ofy(). So I see no way with this method of telling to use the auth credentials defaults.
Thank you very much.
Use the Google App Engine remote api:
https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/java/tools/remoteapi
You could try gcloud-java datastore module.
http://googlecloudplatform.github.io/gcloud-java/0.2.0/index.html
But I encounter some performance issues on outside of Google Sandbox (GAE-Compute Engine)
I'm not able to find a small example (or tutorial) of Android App (possibly with Android Studio) that use Authenticated Endpoints realized with GAE (possibly Python).
Google examples (Greetings and Tic Tac Toe) seems have some problem in my environment (token error, 404 not found, .....).
Can anyone help me? I'm going crazy...
Thank you in advance.
Are you able to access your Endpoint from api Explorer on localhost(http://localhost:8080/_ah/api/explorer ) you can even simulate authentication there.
if API explorer is working then you need to check how you define SCOPE when getting credentials.
In my experience I had problems in following areas:
1. Generating Client IDs
2. define scoping in Endpoint API
3. Specifying correct scope in android App (server:client_id:123456789-abcdefghsadffwe.apps.googleusercontent.com";
I'm finally able to do it.
I used this 2 google examples:
On the server side:
https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/appengine-endpoints-helloendpoints-python
On the client side:
https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/appengine-endpoints-helloendpoints-android
The instructions inside this pages are, in my opinion, better than the official google documentation.
I believe there is an undocumented Google API available to create and manage Google Cloud Console (and App Engine) projects on behalf of third party users.
Does anyone know how to use it?
I think older versions of the Google Eclipse Plugin obtained an OAuth2 token in the (undocumented) scope https://www.googleapis.com/auth/appengine.admin, and this allowed it to generate a Cloud Console project on your behalf. The latest version doesn't seem to do this. App Engine's own appcfg.py also uses this scope, but doesn't seem to do much more than deploy the code - I'm looking to change core settings for the project, such as Name, Redirect URLs, and Web Origins.
Any information would be appreciated.
I maintain a WordPress plugin providing secure Google Apps Login for end users, and currently have to give detailed instructions to admins for creating a new Cloud Console project manually, and entering settings such as Redirect URL. Ideally, I would create a simple on-line service to do all of this for them.
Thank you!
It is possible to programmatically create a new Developer Console project on behalf of a Google Account (yes, you read that right). You do so in a very roundabout way:
Request the https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.scripts scope from the user (standard OAuth 2.0 flow).
Use the Drive API's drive.insert method to create a new file with a mimetype of application/vnd.google-apps.script.
Somehow try to get the project ID, maybe by uploading some Apps Script code? This is the part that I was never able to figure out.
A little known fact is that every Google Apps Script project has a hidden Developer Console project associated with it. This project is not shown in the list of projects, but it does exist. It is created automatically when the user starts a new Apps Script project, and the drive.insert method is enough to cause this to happen.
How do you get to the hidden project? Well, the only way I know of is to open the Apps Script project from the Drive website, open the "Resources > Advanced Google Services" dialog, and click the link to the Developer Console. You'll find the project ID in the URL.
Aside from not being shown in your list of projects and not being able to use App Engine, this is a normal Developer Console project. You can add additional OAuth client credentials, service accounts, Compute Engine instances, etc. And of course once you have a project ID, all of the various management APIs will work: creating new virtual machines, making use of a service account's impersonation ability, etc.
I am using Java + GPE.
I have an application with 4 end point APIs. I added one more and tested in my development environment. My new api was detected by API explorer in dev environment. I then deployed to GAE but my new API doesn't show up in API explorer.
I can confirm the api classes have been deployed in GAE as I am able to access the functionality through a servlet.
Can someone please help me out ?
Regards,
Sathya
Try to copy the two JAR files of your directory src>enpoint-libs>libreDefEndpoint-v1>yourclassEnpoint in the war>WEB-INF>lib. (Then deploy)
How do I setup Account Registration, Login, etc in Grails when developing for the Google App Engine? Normally I would use the Acegi plugin but I've read that it doesn't work with Google App Engine.
For reference, I'm using the Grails app-engine and gorm-jpa plugins.
Google App Engine allows you to manage users through their Google Accounts Java API. The page provides example codes which you can easily implement with Groovy.
Hope it helps.
You should take a look at this patch: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GRAILSPLUGINS-1233. I haven't used it yet but might be what you are after.
In my opinion, it is essential to create custom authentication instead of using Google Account API to create any viable application run on GAE.
So, I created my own solution to tackle this problem which you may interested to have a look at URL:
http://grailsfuse.vobject.com/
(You will hit http 500 error for first request, please wait for 30 seconds and refresh)
The missing part is the self-registration page and remember me feature. Please contact us (hyperlink located below the page of URL above) if you are still interested.
Wish to heard from you soon!