And just as I managed to make it working, the new release 1.3.4 got released and really got me totally scared as no more federated methods were there. Luckily it was just an API cleanup and now both the "Google Account API" and the "(Experimental) Federated Login" are using the same User class and the methods to obtain login and logout redirects ... COOL ;-)
The extended "Web Application Starter Project" using a widget to authenticate users via OpenID is available on http://super-easy.appspot.com On May 14, 12:16 pm, Drasko <drasko.ko...@googlemail.com> wrote: > I am doing a major rewrite of a working website. We have chosen GWT > and GAE as the target architecture. > > I would like to complement our propriatory user authentication schema > with OpenID. Hence, I was very happy that GAE supports the "federated > login". After spending the last 8 hours, I have failed to discover any > useful artifacts that would make me understand how to use the User API > in the federated mode. > > Additionally, I found out that the guestbook sample gets broken when > switching the authentication option from the "Google Account API" to > the "Federated Login", causing the login page to be repeatedly called > (shortly showing the CheckCookie URL inbetween). I guess this is not a > planned behaviour, even thought the method used for obtaining the > redirect URL is not forseen for the federated mode (createLoginURL vs > createFederatedLoginURL). > > I would appreciate any comments and/or pointers on this topic as I am > aiming on producing a set of basic demo applications using the most > promising libraries. The findings will be published in the blog > (super-easy.blogspot.com) with the hope that others won't need to > waste so much time. > > I read lots of posts reffering to the dyuproject as a viable OpenID > library for GAE and will use it as the next candidate. > > Thanks for your help > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine for Java" group. > To post to this group, send email to google-appengine-j...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > google-appengine-java+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine for Java" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine-j...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine-java+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en.
