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Python for Google App Engine

By : Pippi

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Python for Google App Engine

4.1 (10)

By: Pippi

Overview of this book

If you are a Python developer, whether you have experience in web applications development or not, and want to rapidly deploy a scalable backend service or a modern web application on Google App Engine, then this book is for you.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

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1. Getting Started

1. Getting Started

The cloud computing stack – SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS

Google Cloud Platform

What Google App Engine does

Making our first Python application

Google Developer Console

Summary

2. A More Complex Application

2. A More Complex Application

Experimenting on the Notes application

Authenticating users

HTML templates with Jinja2

Handling forms

Persisting data in Datastore

Using static files

Summary

3. Storing and Processing Users' Data

3. Storing and Processing Users' Data

Uploading files to Google Cloud Storage

Transforming images with the Images service

Processing long jobs with the task queue

Scheduling tasks with Cron

Sending notification e-mails

Receiving users' data as e-mail messages

Summary

4. Improving Application Performance

4. Improving Application Performance

Advanced use of Datastore

Using Memcache

Breaking our application into modules

Summary

5. Storing Data in Google Cloud SQL

5. Storing Data in Google Cloud SQL

Creating a Cloud SQL instance

Connecting to the instance with the MySQL console

Connecting to the instance from our application

Loading and saving data

Using the local MySQL installation for development

Summary

6. Using Channels to Implement a Real-time Application

6. Using Channels to Implement a Real-time Application

Understanding how the Channel API works

Making our application real time

Implementing the server

Tracking connections and disconnections

Summary

7. Building an Application with Django

7. Building an Application with Django

Setting up the local environment

Rewriting our application using Django 1.7

Summary

8. Exposing a REST API with Google Cloud Endpoints

8. Exposing a REST API with Google Cloud Endpoints

Reasons to use a REST API

Designing and building the API

Implementing API endpoints

Testing the API with API Explorer

Protecting an endpoint with OAuth2

Summary

Index

Index

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Designing and building the API

Before writing the code, we need to have a neat idea in mind of the resources we are going to make available through the API, the methods we will provide to manipulate such resources, and the response codes we will deliver to the clients. After designing the API, we can start write some code to implement resources representation.

Resources, URLs, HTTP verbs, and response code

Defining a resource is very similar to defining a model class in an ORM system, and it's not uncommon for them to coincide, like in our case. In fact, we will provide the following resources:

Note
NoteFile
ChecklistItem

Every resource will be identified by a URL. We omit the hostname here for clarity:

The /notes URL: This identifies a collection of resources of type Note
The /notes/:id URL: This identifies a single resource of type Note using its ID as the discriminator
The /notefiles URL: This identifies a collection of resources of type NoteFile
The /notefiles/:id URL: This identifies a single...

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