The Channel API is an App Engine specific API. If you're not using App Engine, you don't need to use the Channel API as you generally can allow your browser application to communicate with your backend directly, for example using WebSockets <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebSockets_API>.
If you are using App Engine but testing locally, the Channel API is emulated on the local development server <https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/python/tools/devserver> using polling. On Thursday, March 31, 2016 at 12:55:44 PM UTC-4, Michael Coyne wrote: > > It appears that the Google Cloud Client Library for Python does not > support the Channel API: > https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/gcloud-python > <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2FGoogleCloudPlatform%2Fgcloud-python&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNF_JFeIRF8UIf2UdKKzyrT7I8qwDQ> > > How does one use this service in a local development environment? > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/18a10cae-4b0a-4cbc-94c1-9d16abea1d20%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
