You'll have to do it programmatically because the users API is meant for users logging in with a Google Account, and the OAuthService is meant for clients that don't mind going through the three-legged oauth auth dance.
The costs really won't be that high if you use key names and/or a clever Memcache scheme. -- Ikai Lan Developer Programs Engineer, Google App Engine plus.ikailan.com | twitter.com/ikai On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Genom <phage.cont...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am writing an application in Java, which will maybe serve different apps > (desktop, mobile, web etc...). It will take requests, process parameters and > responds with a text. Very simple actually. But the problem is I want to > know which apps made which requests (also their ip adresses) and I don't > want that any client app uses my GAE application without "logging in". > > The logging in is also very simple. They just have to send a client app > specific string so that my application knows who is reaching my services. On > the server side I (my code) will take this client app specific string, > client's ip and request time and store it. If client doesn't do anything for > 5 minutes, it loses it's authentication and must log in again. I don't know > if there is a simple API for this purpose. I thought that I can use > datastore for that and do the job programmatically but this seems to have > high costs. What do you think? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/-/8Fy2aSKW-loJ. > 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. > -- 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.
