App Engine

Cloud Endpoints provides strong integration with OAuth 2.0. If you can use this integration – do it. However, some legacy systems require supporting alternative authentication mechanisms. This article will show you how to secure an API endpoint using Basic Authentication. You can use this as a starting point for whatever authentication method you choose. ...

Writing unit tests for App Engine Cloud Endpoints is a fairly straight forward process. Unfortunately it is not well documented and a few gotchas exist. This article provides a template you can use to unit test Cloud Endpoints including full source code for a working example. ...

App Engine Cloud Endpoints is a great way to quickly and easily create JSON API endpoints. What’s not clear is how to structure your Message code to support a RESTful create-read-update-delete (CRUD) API. This article will show the basic CRUD operations for one Resource. The results can easily be adapted to support a full REST API. ...

The recently released App Engine Modules API allows developers to compartmentalize their applications into logical units that can share state using the datastore or memcache. ...

In App Engine the auto_now option sets a property to the current date/time whenever the entity is created or updated. This is a great feature for tracking the time when an entity was last updated. However, sometimes you may want to put an entity without updating an auto_now timestamp. This article will show you how. ...

View all articles in the MapReduce API Series. So far we’ve looked at using MapReduce pipelines to perform calculations over large data sets and combined multiple pipelines in succession. In this article we will look at how to reduce the amount of data transfer by using a combiner. ...

View all articles in the MapReduce API Series. Last time we looked at how to run a full MapReduce Pipeline to count the number of occurrences of a character within each string. In this post we will see how to chain multiple MapReduce Pipelines together to perform sequential tasks. ...

View all articles in the MapReduce API Series. In the last article we examined how to run one-off tasks that operate on a large dataset using a mapreduce.yaml configuration file. This article will take us a step further and look at how to run a MapReduce job programmatically using the App Engine Pipeline API. ...

View all articles in the MapReduce API Series. Last time we looked at an overview of how MapReduce works. In this article we’ll be getting our hands dirty writing some code to handle the Map Stage. If you’ll recall, the Map Stage is composed of two separate components: an InputReader and a map function. We’ll look at each of these in turn. ...

View all articles in the MapReduce API Series. The first arcticle in this series provides an overview of the App Engine MapReduce API. We will give a basic overview of what MapReduce is and how it is used to do parallel and distributed processing of large datasets. ...