That is exactly what I was looking for. In retrospect, looking through the SDK probably should have come sooner. I'll do that in the future.
Thank you very much, Nick. On Apr 20, 4:12 am, "Nick Johnson (Google)" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Michael, > > The appengine_rpc module from the SDK handles all > this:http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/source/browse/trunk/python/g... > > <http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/source/browse/trunk/python/g...>You > can use it directly in your app, and let it take care of authentication to > an App Engine application. > > -Nick Johnson > > On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 9:34 PM, Michael Byrd > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > > > Hi Everyone, > > > I'm having a hard time figuring this out and I'm hoping someone can > > point me in the right direction for what to read. > > > I've written an appengine app, a servlett, that will accept data from > > a get request, check if the user is signed in to a google account and > > then store the data from the request in the datastore (with a User as > > part of the model). All pretty standard. > > > I'd like for a python script to be able to automate the data input > > (think returning the results of s...@home) but it's important that the > > python client be able to authenticate itself via a google account. > > > I'm at a bit of a loss for where to even start... these seem like good > > places, but I don't even know enough to be sure which, if any, will > > work: > > >http://code.google.com/apis/accounts/docs/OAuthForInstalledApps.html > > -- seems like the best shot but they say as a log in for 'one or more > > google service' which I'm not sure my app counts as.. > > >http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/tools/uploadingdata.html > > -- I think this is not so good as I would have to give every user too > > lenient permissions for my app > > > I've looked through the gdata source code as well trying to > > authenticate with a generic service, but I'm not sure if gdata > > authentication is universal enough to work with an arbitrary appengine > > app. > > > Ideally if someone can get me started or point me at the correct place > > that would be great. > > > I'd rather not do this over email or xmpp, but I'm considering those > > options. > > > Thank you anyone for your help!, > > Michael > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Google App Engine" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<google-appengine%2Bunsubscrib > > [email protected]> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > -- > Nick Johnson, Developer Programs Engineer, App Engine Google Ireland Ltd. :: > Registered in Dublin, Ireland, Registration Number: 368047 > Google Ireland Ltd. :: Registered in Dublin, Ireland, Registration Number: > 368047 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
