Google App Engine REST middleware

I have been trying to get this to work for quite some time now but with no luck and now I’m stuck, I simply can’t get my mind around this. I know that the path I have chosen may not be the easiest but I still believe it’s the most elegant one: I want to add a middleware to my Python based Google App Engine application, enabling me to use the _method=put in order to make my app RESTful.

Python OOP in 5 minutes or less

Let’s dig into our first lesson called “Python OOP in 5 minutes or less” where we will cover: Defining a class and initializing a class.

Learning Python

I’m currently diving into Python and it’s quite funny. It’s so far from other languages that I know (Ruby, Java, PHP) and at the same time there are similarities.

In this post and perhaps a couple more, I will post an abstract of what I read, it will serve as my own notes and perhaps result in a “Learn Python – the 5 minute lecture series” :)

Google Appengine rendering templates

import os
from google.appengine.ext import webapp
from google.appengine.ext.webapp import template
# Utility function for rendering template files
def do_render(handler, template_file, vals = {}, template_dir = 'templates/'):
# Create full path to file
path = os.path.join(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), template_dir), template_file)
# Write out the content
handler.response.out.write(template.render(path, vals))

I’m actually not sure why I posted this small codesnippet here, but it’s from a small Google Appengine project that I have been working on.
It’s a great function for rendering templates (I think it’s the django way) using Google Appengine

Fooling around with app engine

As allways, developing anything but MS stuff on your windows platform  causes headaces …