On 25-Sep-2011 18:55, Jeff Schnitzer wrote: > How are you getting the person's real name out of GAE's UserService? > I don't see that. Maybe this is just something you get with Android > auth?
Could be, though where I got that from stongly suggests just being authed in a GAE app gives it to you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7SxNNC429U (From 13 min onwards) > > The short answer is to use OpenID (and OAuth to get permission on > extra fields). But there is a problem with this - if you have a > database full of google ids (not openids) there's no way to migrate. > You can switch GAE to federated login and you'll get both the google > id and openid, which will let you start populating your database when > people log in, but to go full openid you'll have to do email matching > with the accounts that haven't set their openid. Messy. > > Jeff > > On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Stargazer<[email protected]> wrote: >> We have a Resin powered JEE app and are expanding it to work with >> Android. One of the cool things on Android is you know the user is >> logged into a Google account. With the Google App Engine, you can do >> more that just authenticate since they provide all the back end service >> data. For example, if I created a simple App Engine app which asked for >> the Google id and password, I could then say "Hi John" having pulled >> John as the real username, rather than the email address. >> >> So to expand we can either (gulp) lose Resin and move entirely to the >> App Engine, which I really don't want to do, or replicate the >> authentication system Google uses, as in the simple example above, to do >> it on Resin (which is what I prefer). In other words I want to >> authenticate a valid Google user using Resin but never see the password. >> >> I see this issue as becoming more and more common, for example Google >> just opened the API for Google+, and a great use case for us is to be >> able to access a users circles from server side java. >> >> So as usual its over to you smarts on this list for ideas, or >> suggestions such as if I should be looking at some OpenId or whatever >> based system I can roll in ;-) Sincere thanks... >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> resin-interest mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://maillist.caucho.com/mailman/listinfo/resin-interest >> > > _______________________________________________ > resin-interest mailing list > [email protected] > http://maillist.caucho.com/mailman/listinfo/resin-interest > _______________________________________________ resin-interest mailing list [email protected] http://maillist.caucho.com/mailman/listinfo/resin-interest
