On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Dave <dabo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm trying out the basic Google Data API examples within my AppEngine
> application. I had a couple questions
>
> 1) I tried a simple example of requesting a list of a user's documents
> from within a simple python script on my computer, like this:
>
> import gdata.docs.service
>
> # Create a client class which will make HTTP requests with
> Google Docs server.
> client = gdata.docs.service.DocsService()
> # Authenticate using your Google Docs email address and
> password.
> client.ClientLogin('userxxx', 'passxxx')
>
> # Query the server for an Atom feed containing a list of your
> documents.
> documents_feed = client.GetDocumentListFeed()
> # Loop through the feed and extract each document entry.
> for document_entry in documents_feed.entry:
> # Display the title of the document on the command line.
> print document_entry.title.text
>
> When I do this, will the traffic for this be encrypted or cleartext
> over the internet? How about when/if I do it within the context of an
> app in the AppEngine? If not, how do I make it secure/encrypted? (I
> know that the password here is sent cleartext. What I'm interested in
> knowing is if the reply from Google, containing the data about the
> docs, is cleartext or not).
The password is not sent plaintext - it uses ClientLogin, which doesn't
transmit the password in plaintext.
The response will use HTTP (plaintext) - but in this case, given that the
API is hosted at Google, as is your App Engine app, the opportunity for
anyone to intercept that plaintext is pretty minimal.
>
> 2) How do I port this code into my app? I tried adding the first line
> of code into a working app on AppEngine, and get:
> NameError: global name 'gdata' is not defined
>
> If I try to add "import gdata.docs.service, then I get the error:
You need to include the gdata library in your app - it's not supplied as
part of the SDK.
-Nick Johnson
>
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