Thanks - I appreciate the candor and insight.

On Mar 14, 8:27 pm, "Ikai Lan (Google)" <[email protected]> wrote:
> For raw access, pretty much the barrier is demand. There's some argument
> for raw datastore access via Javascript, but then there are all kinds of
> messy business logic and security that you'd have to specify anyway.
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> Unless you are just talking about using HTML5 and Javascript to talk to
> Python/Java/Go. You can do that today. But odds are good you don't want to
> give unfettered access to every single user of your application. That's why
> you write the Python/Java/Go code: to implement the business logic.
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> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 7:03 PM, that an <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Thanks for the link.  I really appreciate the response straight from
> > the source.  And it helps confirm for me that I'm probably looking for
> > something that doesn't yet exist.
>
> > But what is the barrier for Google providing access to GAE via
> > javascript?
>
> > GWT is, after all, converted to javascript when it is running on the
> > client - so it is technically possible.  And communication between
> > client and server, no matter what platform they use is standard HTTP
> > protocol - neither client or server really cares (or should care)
> > about how the other is implemented.
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> > I'm not trying to be obtuse, but it just seems like such a...
> > natural... fit and obvious gap in the simplicity of the development.
> > Write your GAE server in a natural server side language like Python or
> > Java, and write your client in a natural client side language like
> > javascript and HTML5.
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> > Is there a reason that I've missed?  Help me out here - I just don't
> > understand the omission...
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> > On Mar 14, 1:40 pm, "Ikai Lan (Google)" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > I wouldn't say dancing - we just don't provide that kind of access. Even
> > if
> > > we ever did in the future, we would likely wrap an auth layer around it
> > > (probably OAuth 2.0).
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> > > This might be the closest thing you are looking for:
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> > >http://code.google.com/p/google-protorpc/
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> > > But I don't have any thoughts about security, and you'd have to write the
> > > code yourself to translate requests to datastore calls.
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> > > Ikai Lan
> > > Developer Programs Engineer, Google App Engine
> > > plus.ikailan.com
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> > > On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 8:31 PM, that an <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > I'm looking for a way to use javascript code to directly interface
> > > > with the google app engine and with the datastore.
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> > > > I've already used the GWT/GAE Java SDK in Eclipse with varying levels
> > > > of success, but I'm looking for a way to leverage the benefits of GAE
> > > > cloud services with the direct DOM manipulation of writing javascript
> > > > directly for the client.  GWT front end just doesn't seem flexible
> > > > enough to do what javascript can.
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> > > > Maybe I've missed something obvious, or something that is out there
> > > > does it, but I've been searching for awhile now, and it just seems
> > > > like Google is dancing around any direct client access to their App
> > > > Engine and cloud datastore.
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> > > > I've pretty much exhausted my leads so far - Any direction is greatly
> > > > appreciated.
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