I have a Cloud App hosted on Windows Azure and I need to integrate XMPP with the service. Can I use GAE's XMPP API to achieve this? I'll need to be able to create new Jabber IDs and send & receive messages from other clients like GTalk.
As far as I know, GAE only supports Java, Python and my expertise is limited to .NET & C#; so, I'll have to make my Azure App to communicate with the GAE.
Finally, can I use GAE as an alternative to running ejabbered on Windows Azure Virtual Machines or Amazon EC2?
Thanks in advance... :)
You could but it would be very limited. You may be better off running ejabbered somewhere else.
With GAE's XMPP API, your username selection is rather limited. See the GAE XMPP Overview API documentation.
Your Cloud App would need to send and receive messages from your GAE app via HTTP accesses. This is no big deal for sending, but you'll have to work your own way of receiving messages. You could buffer your messages to the datstore and poll for messages. You could use the Channel API to receive messages directly, but so far the Channel API client is only available in Javascript, so your app would need some sort of javascript interpreter to use the client.
You will be able to send/receive messages from other XMPP addresses like GTalk clients.
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We have an IoT project here
Facts:
We have our app running on Google App Engine, PHP runtime.
The clients are raspberry pi or similar boards.
We are using cloudmqtt (www.cloudmqtt.com) to generate a push event on our C client app, which then runs the sync process with the server
Is there a google cloud replacement for what we are doing?
We tried Google Push/Sub, but our C app needed to be polling the service.
We would love to use Google Cloud Messaging but we could not find any way to use it for push notifications for the client.
Basically, we need to send push messages to a raspberry pi, what would you recommend for that? (remember our server is on GAE)
GCM handle polling mechanisms on its own and should let you push notifications as well as messages to the client. Try debugging your application using documentation.
During I/O 2016, they also launched Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) which is basically a newer version of GCM, and is the recommended product to use.
But if you wanted to use your deployment rather than a service, you can use Google Compute Engine instances to deploy EMQTTD which is a highly scalable MQTT broker written in Erlang.
I searched a lot for built web service like Google Talk, using Google Application Engine and Python.
For that first step is to check the status of online user on the Gmail. I found many code of it on python using XMPP library but it work only on python not using Google Application Engine.
There is also suggestion of using XMPP python API but for sending message we have to provide JID like app-id#appspot.com and message send.We can not send message from one email Id to another Email Id directly.
Now I want to perform Oauth authentication in python for gtalk at domain level can anyone tell me how to do this?
I think you are confused. Python runs ON appengine. Also theres a working java xmpp example provided.
You can only send messages from your app. There are two options: your_app_id#appspot.com or anything#your_app_id.appspotchat.com.
If you wanted to behave like an arbitrary xmpp client, you'll have to use a third party xmpp library running over HTTP and handle the authentication with the user's XMPP server.
I have an AppEngine application which uses Google Accounts as authentication. What is the approach or idea on seeing if someone is online or using the application? And able to chat to online users.
Thanks.
The official way to implement chat on App Engine is using the Channel API. However, the quotas are strange, and it's fairly expensive at $0.01/100 connections.
I would recommend using a hosted web socket service like Pusher, or running your own nodejs server on another host.
You can use the XMPP API to get users status, and send them messages that appear in Google Chat.
https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/xmpp/
I have a web application running on Google App Engine and need to provide near real time updates to connected web clients. One way would be to use the Google App Engine Channels API, but I'm a bit uneasy about using a proprietary solution.
Are there any reliable hosted services allowing for clients to connect using Socket.IO (with all its supported fallback protocols), and a web server solution running on Google App Engine to publish notifications to it? Any other alternatives that offers the same functionality?
You looking for something like beaconpush.com?
I have the same problem as you.
I've thought about using the Channel API as well however the free quota is quite low (100 channels created per day, each client is one channel).
Here's the solution I'm building:
All of the server logic runs in app engine python runtime
app engine serves all the html and client code
I run a node.js socket.io server on dotcloud (using their free tier)
the node.js server sets up an http server that listens to get requests on a few special url endpoints (ie: myapp-on.dotcloud.com/room/[room_id]) and when it gets called it triggers the socket.io broadcast to the appropriate clients
html clients generated on app engine connect to my myapp-on.dotcloud.com
All user input in the client is sent to app engine via a normal ajax post/get
when the app engine server code needs to push something to the client it makes a url fetch on the appropriate url (myapp-on.dotcloud.com/room/[room_id]) that triggers a message push via socket.io to the connected clients
I'm yet to implement this, but sounds like a workable plan
the idea is to keep all the logic in app engine and only use the socket.io server as a message pusher
Is there a mechanism to receive emails and/or establish IMAP connections in Google App Engine? I know that GAE provides limited support for the JavaMail API (i.e. only allow to send emails). Any workaround?
For future readers of this post: the ability to receive email has been recently added to Google App Engine. Link to announcement
Not currently, but it is on the roadmap:
http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/roadmap.html
See http://www.smtp2web.com/ (made by a googler) for a temporary solution.
No, that is a limitation of the system (network calls are essentially limited to web requests).