Well, I used the appengine-rest-server wich is great for my needs. I
inherited the rest.Dispatcher class and wrote access controll in the
get, put, post delete methods. You probably have moved on, but I'm
kinda curious about how you chose to do it.

On Feb 8, 1:31 am, tempy <fay...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to build a GAE app that will have the following general
> architecture:
>
> Installed clients (mono on desktops and iphone) that will authenticate
> and then get/put/delete user-specific data to the GAE app.  (The data
> is not public, users should not be able to see each other's data.)
> Then, GAE itself will host a website that will allow users to access
> and do stuff with the data created by the clients.
>
> I am trying to figure out how exactly the clients will connect to
> GAE.  I read about the Authentication API and that sounds pretty much
> like what I need.  But as far as the clients communicating with the
> GAE app, I figure my choices areRESTor a SOAP web-service.  I would
> much prefer to go withRESTbut SOAP would also do.  So I've been
> trying to figure out whether either of these are supported and how to
> implement them, and the fragmented documentation out there is really
> making me feel like a newbie (which I am.)
>
> As forREST, I found this publicly available 
> code:http://github.com/fczuardi/gae-rest/tree/masterhttp://code.google.com/p/appengine-rest-server/
>
> For SOAP, I found this blog post which seems to lay things out more or
> less 
> clearly:http://www.ioncannon.net/web-services/180/soap-on-the-google-app-engi...
>
> I am still not quite sure if any of these approaches would do exactly
> what I need, so in hoping that I would save myself a day or two of
> research/trial-and-error I am posting here, and wondering if anyone
> has already accomplished this (RESTor SOAP to allow installed clients
> to authenticate and then get/put/delete data particular to them.)
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Mike

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