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.
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When will SSL support for custom domain be available within the developer console, instead of having to go over to Google Apps? I read somewhere it says Q3 of 2015. But seems like people have some ways of getting that to work already. Is it a private beta feature?
Building some apps for a client and they can't get their Google Apps account to work and we already have the custom sub-domain mapped to the GAE, and just need the last piece. Help!
This is the tracking issue, indeed Q3 seems to be more likely: https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=10794
FWIW, I detailed a bit my solution to get things working via Google Apps in this Q&A: AppEngine subdomains to modules without wildcard mapping, maybe it can help with your customer's problems in the meantime.
I want to use Google Prediction from a Python Google App Engine Application. Google Prediction requires you to store your "prediction models" in Google Storage for Developers, in effect meaning that to use GP you must use GSD. Unfortunately, both GP and GSD seem to require OAuth 2.0 .
This Oauth stuff is really getting in the way though! All the examples I find seem to deal with the case of wanting for access a users data/credentials/identity/whatever using Oauth. I have no need for that. I simply want to access a resource (GP and GSD) from my server using http request. Repeat, I just want to use some of their services, I have no need at all to access any other users information!
I can see from my Google API console that I have created both a id and secret for my GAE applications domain. Is it not possible to just use these values to do OAuth authentication to other Google API's? Effectively saying "I am the application at domain xyz, here are my credentials, let me use your API"? It seems kind of ridiculous that Google is currently forcing people to use such a burdensome authentication system for things that they are trying to get people to try out?
I am hoping there is some magical awesome library that will take care of all these OAuth details for me. Short of that, a code example of how to do these things in Python App Engine would be useful. I just want to use the Google Prediction and Google Storage for Developers services from my python GAE app, but I am blocked by the burden of having to configure all of this OAuth stuff. Isn't there some easy way to do this?
Look at the Google API Python Client. You should just be able to put your tokens in and connect. There are some examples on the page that should give you enough information to connect in.
I'm the Product Manager at Google working on the Prediction API. The first thing I want to say is thank you for trying out the API and for reaching out to the world about your issues! We hear you! We are very aware of the difficulty of using the API in some cases and some of the pain OAuth2.0 can cause for the simple use cases. In particular I tried to do exactly what you were doing a few weeks ago and was myself rather frustrated! We're working on it!
OK, so, that's all nice and dandy, but do I have anything helpful for you? Hopefully I do! I managed to get my GAE application working with GP -- I shelved the GSD component for the moment as I ran out of time, so hopefully somebody else can lend you some sample code for that (it should involve using boto & OAuth to handle the tricky bits).
from apiclient.discovery import build
from oauth2client.client import OAuth2Credentials
# You can find an example oauth2client in the python prediction sample code
# Replace everything in <>'s
credentials = OAuth2Credentials(
"<access_token>", #probably empty string
"<client_id>",
"<client_secret>",
"<refresh_token>",
<Expiry>, # Probably None
"https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token",
"<app_useragent>")
http = credentials.authorize(httplib2.Http())
service = build("prediction", "v1.3", http=http)
You should be able to get the client id an client secret from the API console. You can use any sample application or demo, e.g. the python sample code, to generate a refresh token.
Best of luck! Feel free to followup directly with me (zg#google.com) or post to our public discussion list (prediction-api-discuss#googlegroups.com) if you still have any trouble.
I would like to write a client application for Android that uses the Google App Engine as a database backend. My Android client would connect to the App Engine to save information, then it would connect later for reports. Is it possible to use the App Engine as a backend like this?
If you're looking for something like the remote api that the App Engine has in python, then you'll be disappointed to find it missing in Java.
That said, absolutely nothing stops your from hitting your app and posting data either through POST / JSON / XML / any other format you can think of. The same thing goes for getting your reports back.
If security is a concern, the OAuth protocol allows you to authenticate to app engine from your android device.
This is an aside, but as far as reporting is concerned, you might not find the app engine a very suitable platform for reporting type apps. Just make sure you understand its limitations - the lack of joins, 1000 object limit, no sum / average, necessary indexes, etc. It's certainly not impossible, but do think carefully about how you're going to model your data.
Yes, it is possible.
Without more details in your question, any more details in the answer would be speculation.
Yes, its very much possible. It's something I am also currently working on.
My code uses HTTP GET and HTTP POST and I am using a RESTful service on the GAE.
I'm sorry I can't provide any code because I am still learning however the library I'm using is called RESTLET. They have libraries for both GAE and Android however I'm only using RESTLET on the GAE and I'm just using the HTTP library in the Android SDK for the client.
http://www.restlet.org/
The version you require is 2.0 M6 and not the stable release.
No.
In your response to Laurence, you said you want a direct DB connetion. A client cannot connect directly to the GAE datastore. You must write web handlers to interface between the client and your data. It doesn't have to be much, but it must be something.
Yes, it is very possible. You would not connect directly to the GAE database though. A better architecture would be to make your app hit a URL that writes to the DB. For example, you could set up a Struts 2 action that takes the values of your query parameters and then mutates and validates them as necessary before persisting them.
I saw many links over the internet and specifically openid-consumer project (which is a part of http://code.google.com/p/google-app-engine-samples/), but it doesn't work as honestly readme file says.
So what's the latest update on that? Is there any way I can authenticate my web site users with OpenID from someone besides Google (like stackoverflow does)?
I have setup an example app here:
http://github.com/shripadk/authlogic_openid_selector_example
With the source code. It works exactly the way stackoverflow does. Have not implemented facebook auth as its buggy still.
I've just played a bit with the openid-consumer you mention and it actually works. Have you tried to run the sample code standalone, as a separate project?
I've used it in a test application on App Engine and it seems to work alright. I placed the consumer.py, fetcher.py, store.py and then the openid dir in the root dir, then I moved parts of the config in app.yaml from the openid sample app to my app.yaml.
You can check the implementation at http://x-libris.appspot.com. In the upper right corner press Logga in (which is swedish for login). Try using any of the available OpenId providers, so far OpenId, Google, MySpace and Yahoo! are available (I've only tested the first two providers).
It's an Ajax based solution so I did some tweaking of the render method in consumer.py in order to change the templating and the example at openid-demo.appspot.com was handy.
// John
I just noticed the new version of the app engine SDK now includes support for OpenID in the user API
The 1.3.4 release includes support for authentication via OpenID as an experimental feature.
look in the app engine python user API docs for more info about this
This should make this easy to implement (I will start implementing this today !)
try rpxnow.com , they provide multiple options including openid.
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!