gae_installer 1.9.11

Google App Engine Installer

This package installs the Google App Engine SDK 1.9.11 to the site-packages directory of the current Python interpreter so that you can use from google import appengine outside the dev_appserver.py runtime. This is useful if you want to use the google.appengine.ext.testbed package in your tests.

It also makes all of the GAE commands like dev_appserver.py, bulkloader.py, etc. globaly available without the .py extension.

The installer works wit Virtualenv.

The version of this package mirrors the GAE SDK version (currently 1.9.11) and if there will be a new release of the SDK, there will be a corresponding release of this package too.

Usage

Create a virtual environment

$ virtualenv e
$ . e/bin/activate

Install with pip,

$(e) pip install gae_installer

or with easy_install,

$(e) easy_install gae_installer

or manually

$(e) git colone https://github.com/peterhudec/gae_installer.git
$(e) python gae_installer/setup.py install
$(e) rm -rf gae_installer

The installation will take a while. After it is complete, you should be able to import the google package:

(e)$ python -c "from google import appengine; print appengine.__file__"
/Users/peterhudec/demo/e/lib/python2.7/site-packages/google_appengine/google/appengine/__init__.pyc

And the GAE executables should be in the ./e/bin/ directory.

$(e) ls -l ./e/bin/
total 232
-rw-r--r--  1 peterhudec  staff   2224 May 14 12:38 activate
-rw-r--r--  1 peterhudec  staff   1280 May 14 12:38 activate.csh
-rw-r--r--  1 peterhudec  staff   2493 May 14 12:38 activate.fish
-rw-r--r--  1 peterhudec  staff   1129 May 14 12:38 activate_this.py
-rwxr-xr-x  1 peterhudec  staff     42 May 13 19:36 api_server
-rwxr-xr-x  1 peterhudec  staff     42 May 13 19:48 backends_conversion
-rwxr-xr-x  1 peterhudec  staff     42 May 13 19:48 bulkload_client
-rwxr-xr-x  1 peterhudec  staff     42 May 13 19:48 bulkloader
-rwxr-xr-x  1 peterhudec  staff     42 May 13 19:36 dev_appserver
-rwxr-xr-x  1 peterhudec  staff     42 May 13 19:48 download_appstats
-rwxr-xr-x  1 peterhudec  staff    271 May 14 12:38 easy_install
-rwxr-xr-x  1 peterhudec  staff    271 May 14 12:38 easy_install-2.7
-rwxr-xr-x  1 peterhudec  staff     42 May 13 19:48 endpointscfg
-rwxr-xr-x  1 peterhudec  staff     42 May 13 19:48 gen_protorpc
-rwxr-xr-x  1 peterhudec  staff     69 May 13 19:35 get_gae_dir
-rwxr-xr-x  1 peterhudec  staff     42 May 13 19:48 google_sql
-rwxr-xr-x  1 peterhudec  staff     42 May 13 19:49 old_dev_appserver
-rwxr-xr-x  1 peterhudec  staff     42 May 13 19:49 php_cli
-rwxr-xr-x  1 peterhudec  staff    243 May 14 12:38 pip
-rwxr-xr-x  1 peterhudec  staff    243 May 14 12:38 pip2
-rwxr-xr-x  1 peterhudec  staff    243 May 14 12:38 pip2.7
-rwxr-xr-x  1 peterhudec  staff  12752 May 14 12:38 python
lrwxr-xr-x  1 peterhudec  staff      6 May 14 12:38 python2 -> python
lrwxr-xr-x  1 peterhudec  staff      6 May 14 12:38 python2.7 -> python
-rwxr-xr-x  1 peterhudec  staff     42 May 13 19:49 remote_api_shell
-rwxr-xr-x  1 peterhudec  staff     42 May 13 19:49 wrapper_util

How It Works

Runnig the python setup.py install tries to download the Google App Engine SDK for Linux/Other Platforms from the https://storage.googleapis.com/appengine-sdks/featured/google_appengine_X.X.X.zip URL. If the response mime-type is not application/zip, the requested version is deprecated and the installer will download the GAE SDK from https://storage.googleapis.com/appengine-sdks/deprecated/XXX/google_appengine_X.X.X.zip where XXX is the GAE SDK version matching the GAE Installer version. The downloaded ZIP archive will then be checked against a SHA1 checksum and extracted into the site-packages/google_appengine directory of the current Python interpreter and made available to the PYTHONPATH with the site-packages/google_appengine.pth file. GAE Installer also creates Bash executables in the scripts directory of the current Python interpreter which wrap the GAE Python executables in the site-packages/google_appengine directory.