Again, I use django+piston to serve Json with auth on Appengine. I'll take a look at tipfy too (: Anyway, what made me go for django is the fact that if I need to go out of appengine for any reason I don't have to rewrite my app.
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 8:20 AM, Pankaj Chawla <pankaj...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks I will check it out. After I emailed, I was looking around and found > tipfy(http://www.tipfy.org/). Its supposedly a framework specifically for > GAE > and it also supports multiple modes of authentication including datastore > based. > Anybody has used it and have good/bad things to say about it. > > BTW, my app on GAE will only be exposing a json based API that will be > used by a custom client built in Qt for desktop and maybe later a native > android/iPhone app. Are there any resources out there that talk about this > especially with respect to authentication, sessions etc as the API > should only respond to authenticated users within a specific session. > I found a few pointers on stackoverflow.com but non that were extensive. > > Thanks > Pankaj > > > On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Felipe Meirelles <poz...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Actualy the django login system works realy fine on appengine. >> >> Take a look at http://www.allbuttonspressed.com/ and grab the >> djangoappengine project. They have "ported" both auth and admin module to >> appengine, as many other things in django. >> I use it on two commercial applications on appengine and it works great. >> >> On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 6:14 AM, Pankaj Chawla <pankaj...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> Hi >>> >>> I understand that google appengine supports user authentication using >>> google >>> accounts or openid or google app accounts. I am trying to build an >>> application >>> on appspot.com where the end user may not have google or openid accounts >>> and >>> hence need to support a custom user authentication with datastore based >>> users. >>> Before I decide to write one from scratch I was wondering if the user >>> authentication >>> of say Django or any other python framework can be leveraged. >>> >>> One option for me is to pick a google app account and then provide an >>> interface to >>> allow user creation for my custom domain like u...@example.com but I >>> figured >>> that beyond 10 users, Google Apps account charges $5 per user account. >>> Thats >>> seems to be a lot of money just for user creation as they wont be using >>> the other >>> add-ons that come with the Google App account. >>> >>> Thanks >>> Pankaj >>> >>> > -- > 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 > google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > -- Att, Felipe Meirelles. -- 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 google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
