I don't have any special information but I've noticed the Users API has remained pretty much as-is since I arrived. I also don't think it's particularly clever. Other than for prototyping in the early days, I have avoided it.
Google Identity Toolkit is nice. Or, if you want simple and google-only, just use the auth2 javascript (this is what I do now). There's surprisingly little advantage to having an auth framework built into GAE. All you need is one CDN-hosted javascript for the client and a small token validation library for the server. Jeff On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 6:09 PM, PK <p...@gae123.com> wrote: > I am looking for some guidance on the roadmap of the Users API > <https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/python/users/>. > > The Users API is a great simple API and has served me OK for a while. > However, I am getting a little bit uneasy with the lack of progress on the > following issues. I would like to hear from Google whether these issues > will be taken care of and by when or whether I should invest in some other > Google Accounts authentication API that will integrate at the same level > with GAE. In the latter case, what is that API. > > Here is my list of issues, most of them with links to the public tracker: > > 1. Multiple Google users in the same browser session are not supported > correctly. (see public tracker bugs 9045 > <https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9045>, 8916 > <https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8916>) > 2. Certain Google authentication workflows lead to errors (see bug 10001 > <https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=10001>) > 3. Certain Google App Engine authentication workflows have usability > issues with small displays (see bug 12537 > <https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=12357>, 4935 > <https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4935>) > 4. Finally, as my application matures I want to see additional > functionality to the Users API that has not changed for five years now. For > instance, I want to know whether a user used 2-step verification to login > so that I can restrict access based on that information. > > I would appreciate a response in public or private. I am willing to sign > NDA as well because I need to make some decisions on how to proceed. > > Thanks, > PK > www.gae123.com > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/E0D23358-E1F7-4756-8FCC-0EAA33800015%40gae123.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/E0D23358-E1F7-4756-8FCC-0EAA33800015%40gae123.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/CADK-0uhxx5QKcn%2BNtzTRC%3DJEV0GF4P0%3DVHnH%3DVO0d7f74wUHeg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
