Generating a C# client for an App Engine Cloud Endpoints API

The Cloud Endpoints API comes packaged with endpointscfg.py to generate client libraries in JavaScript, Objective-C (for iOS) and Java (for Android). You can also generate a few additional client libraries using the Google APIs client generator. This article will show you how to use the generator to create a C# client library. ...

July 22, 2014 · 2 min · Kevin Sookocheff

Using Basic Authentication with Google Cloud Endpoints

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. ...

July 16, 2014 · 2 min · Kevin Sookocheff

Unit Testing Cloud Endpoints

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. ...

July 10, 2014 · 3 min · Kevin Sookocheff

Creating RESTful APIs with App Engine Cloud Endpoints

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. ...

July 2, 2014 · 3 min · Kevin Sookocheff