Re: [Resin-interest] Using Google id's with Resin

2011-10-15 Thread Stargazer
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? The short answer is to use OpenID (and OAuth to get permission on extra fields). But there is a problem

Re: [Resin-interest] Using Google id's with Resin

2011-09-28 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 09/25/2011 09:45 AM, Stargazer 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

[Resin-interest] Using Google id's with Resin

2011-09-25 Thread Stargazer
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,

Re: [Resin-interest] Using Google id's with Resin

2011-09-25 Thread Jeff Schnitzer
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? 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

Re: [Resin-interest] Using Google id's with Resin

2011-09-25 Thread Stargazer
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: