[google-appengine] Re: Migrating GAE app stored user information to GAE Python 3.0 without Users API

Yes, trying it out is indeed what we're planning to do to validate the behavior and prepare for the switch. Thanks for the follow up David. On Wednesday, February 20, 2019 at 8:10:54 PM UTC-5, davidc...@google.com wrote: > > Hello Marcel, > > We expect these IDs to be the same but cannot guaran

[google-appengine] Re: Migrating GAE app stored user information to GAE Python 3.0 without Users API

has anyone tried Firebase Authentication API as a suitable replacement for GAE Python 2.7 Users api? https://firebase.google.com/docs/auth/ this doc lays it out nicely: https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/python/authenticating-users-firebase-appengine also, it looks like you can hav

[google-appengine] Re: Migrating GAE app stored user information to GAE Python 3.0 without Users API

Hello Marcel, We expect these IDs to be the same but cannot guarantee it. The best way to confirm this is to try it in your test environment; store the user ID of a user from an application using the Users API and then using the same user try to access application using Google Identity Platfo

[google-appengine] Re: Migrating GAE app stored user information to GAE Python 3.0 without Users API

To clarify our usage scenario: We register external users with our application by storing our own user entities. To catch aliases and dot/no dot variations being the same Google account (for example a gmail account does allow aliases and people appear to log in with and without dots in their na

[google-appengine] Re: Migrating GAE app stored user information to GAE Python 3.0 without Users API

Hi George, You said - .as in Google Identity Platform you are not supposed to use these IDs to validate user log-ins.. How then are you supposed to validate user log-ins using Google Identify Platform? GAE 2.7 User Object documentation specifically said that the User Id is stable and r

[google-appengine] Re: Migrating GAE app stored user information to GAE Python 3.0 without Users API

Hello Marcel, Documentation does not indicate restrictions on user ID's, you may check "Getting profile information" page for related details. You can choose IDs or pattern for IDs that might correlate to the old App Engine IDs. This