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Python for Google App Engine

By : Massimiliano Pippi
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Python for Google App Engine

By: Massimiliano Pippi

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Python for Google App Engine
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


In this final chapter, we took an in-depth look at the Cloud Endpoints framework, and you now have the skills needed to complete the REST API and potentially support a wide variety of clients: someone could write an Android version of Notes, some other might provide a porting on iOS. We can write a JavaScript client and deliver it as a Chrome or Firefox application through their respective marketplaces.

You learned about REST in brief and why you should choose it among other solutions to talk with miscellaneous clients. We accurately designed our API, providing a comprehensive set of endpoints to retrieve and manipulate resources in our application. We finally implemented the code and played with the API using the API Explorer, an interactive exploring tool capable of executing API methods, showing request and response data, and authenticating the client.

REST is a language used in many places on the Internet, and thanks to the Cloud Endpoints, we have the opportunity to easily provide...