I'm attempting to run a localhost web server that has remote api access to a remote datastore using the remote_api_stub
method ConfigureRemoteApiForOAuth
.
I have been using the following Google doc for reference but find it rather sparse:
https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/python/tools/remoteapi
I believe I'm missing the authentication bit, but can't find a concrete resource to guide me. What would be the easiest way, given the follow code example, to access a remote datastore while running dev_appserver.py
?
import webapp2
from google.appengine.ext import ndb
from google.appengine.ext.remote_api import remote_api_stub
class Topic(ndb.Model):
created_by = ndb.StringProperty()
subject = ndb.StringProperty()
@classmethod
def query_by_creator(cls, creator):
return cls.query(Topic.created_by == creator)
class MainPage(webapp2.RequestHandler):
def get(self):
remote_api_stub.ConfigureRemoteApiForOAuth(
'#####.appspot.com',
'/_ah/remote_api'
)
topics = Topic.query_by_creator('bill')
self.response.headers['Content-Type'] = 'text/plain'
self.response.out.write('<html><body>')
self.response.out.write('<h1>TOPIC SUBJECTS:<h1>')
for topic in topics.fetch(10):
self.response.out.write('<h3>' + topic.subject + '<h3>')
self.response.out.write('</body></html>')
app = webapp2.WSGIApplication([
('/', MainPage)
], debug=True)
This get's asked a lot, simply because you can't use app engines libraries outside of the SDK. However, there is also an easier way to do it from within the App Engine SDK as well.
I would use
gcloud
for this. Here's how to set it up:If you want to interact with google cloud storage services inside or outside of the App Engine environment, you may use Gcloud (https://googlecloudplatform.github.io/gcloud-python/stable/) to do so.
You need a service account on your application as well as download the JSON credentials file. You do this on the app engine console under the
authentication
tab. Create it, and then download it. Call itclient_secret.json
or something.With those, once you install the proper packages for gcloud with pip, you'll be able to make queries as well as write data.
Here is an example of authenticating yourself to use the library:
Once that's done, you can make queries like this:
It's actually super easy. Any who, that's how I would do that! Cheers.