Now that we know how to connect to a Cloud SQL instance from our App Engine application, it's time to learn how to write and read data from the database. We already created a table called ops, and we will use it to store information about user operations. We will log the following events:

We have to assign a text code to each of the operation types we want to log. To do so, we can use a simple Python class that works as an enumeration. In the utils.py module, we add the following code:

class OpTypes(object):
    NOTE_CREATED = 'NCREATED'
    FILE_ADDED = 'FADDED'
    SHRINK_PERFORMED = 'SHRINKED'

We will see how to use it in a moment. We now provide a log_operation() method in the utils.py module that we will use to log operations in the Cloud SQL database. We will call this function within the Notes code passing along the user who actually performed...