Hi Laurens, We do have one article on the App Engine helper for Django:
http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/appengine_helper_for_django.html If there is other specific documentation you think is lacking, I would encourage you to contact the project's contributors, or file an issue in their issue tracker. -Marzia On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 4:38 AM, Laurens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > Hi :-) > > I've very recently started playing with GAE/Django using the google- > app-engine-django project (http://code.google.com/p/google-app-engine- > django/ <http://code.google.com/p/google-app-engine-django/>). I have zero > experience with GAE and zero experience with > Django (and limited experience with Python). > > Looking at the code, I understand that there's a lot of contributed > code for making sessions, auth, serialization... work. Right now I'm > having problems because there's essentially no docs -- I realise it's > impossible to keep accurate documentation for a project that changes > so quickly, but just a 5 minute article with code samples would do > wonders. > > I'm assuming it's just: > > 1. Add the middleware > 'appengine_django.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware' to > settings.py > 2. from appengine_django.auth.models import User > or perhaps more likely: add appengine_django.auth to the > INSTALLED_APPS variable in settings.py > 3. Pretend it's django, but without groups/permissions. > > If I'm right, more power to you -- you've managed to not confuse > someone with a lot less experience/knowledge than what I'm guessing > your target audience has right now. If I'm not, well, like I said, a > five minute article with a code sample would be nice. Basically just > the top half of the Django docs: > > http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/auth/ > > ... but adapted for the django helper? > > Other than that, excellent project, I'm looking forward to toying with > it some more. I'm sure I'll love it as soon as I figure out what I'm > doing ;-) > > In case there's docs but I managed to miss them, I'm sorry. I did > search, but I didn't find anything useful. > > Thanks in advance > Laurens > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
