Using Google App Engine

Preface; Who Should Read This Book?; What???s in This Book?; Teaching with This Book; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; Safari?? Books Online; Comments and Questions; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Programming on the Web; 1.1 The Request/Response Cycle; 1.2 What Is Google App Engine?; 1.3 What Is a ???Cloud????; 1.4 Why Did Google Build App Engine and Give It Away for Free?; 1.5 What Is the Google Infrastructure Cloud?; 1.6 Enter the Application Engine; 1.7 Your Application Must Be a Good Citizen in the Google Cloud; 1.8 How the Cloud Runs Your Application; 1.9 Why You Really Want to Run in the Cloud; 1.10 The Simplest App Engine Application; 1.11 Summary; 1.12 Exercises; Chapter 2: HTML and CSS; 2.1 A Brief History of HTML and CSS; 2.2 HyperText Markup Language (HTML); 2.3 A Well-Formed HTML Document; 2.4 Validating Your HTML; 2.5 HyperText Links (Anchor Tags); 2.6 Multiple Files; 2.7 Lists in HTML; 2.8 Specifying Styles Using CSS; 2.9 Exerting More Control over Markup; 2.10 Building the Navigation Menu; 2.11 Summary; 2.12 Exercises; Chapter 3: Python; 3.1 What Is Programming?; 3.2 About Python; 3.3 The Essence of Programming; 3.4 Conditional Steps: A Number-Guessing Web Application; 3.5 Object-Oriented Python; 3.6 The Tao of Programming; 3.7 Summary; 3.8 Exercises; Chapter 4: Sending Data to Your Application; 4.1 Making an HTTP Request; 4.2 Hacking the HTTP Protocol; 4.3 The HTTP Protocol Standards; 4.4 Watching HTTP in Action; 4.5 HTML: Building a Form; 4.6 Sending Form Data to the Server Using POST; 4.7 Handling Form Data in the App Engine Server; 4.8 Sending Form Data to the Server Using GET; 4.9 App Engine Log; 4.10 Looking at All the Data Available on an HTTP Request; 4.11 Advanced: Multipart POST Data with File Upload; 4.12 Summary; 4.13 Exercises; Chapter 5: The App Engine webapp Framework; 5.1 A Trivial App Engine Application; 5.2 An Equivalent Trivial webapp Application; 5.3 The Handler Callback Pattern; 5.4 Looking at the Handler Code; 5.5 What Is ???self??? and Why Is It There?; 5.6 Number Guessing Using the webapp Framework; 5.7 Web Server Logs; 5.8 Summary; 5.9 Exercises; Chapter 6: Templates; 6.1 Template Syntax; 6.2 Using the Templates from Python; 6.3 The Number-Guessing Game Using Templates; 6.4 Abstraction and Separation of Concerns: ???Model View Controller???; 6.5 Building a Multiscreen Application; 6.6 Static Files in App Engine; 6.7 Generalizing Template Lookup with Multiple Templates; 6.8 Extending Base Templates; 6.9 Conditional Processing Templates; 6.10 Extending Our Application; 6.11 Syntax Errors; 6.12 More on Templates; 6.13 Summary; 6.14 Exercises; Chapter 7: Cookies and Sessions; 7.1 HTTP Cookies; 7.2 Logging In and Logging Out Using Sessions; 7.3 Installing the Simple Session Utility; 7.4 Using the Session to Mark Login and Logout; 7.5 Changing the User Interface for a Logged-In User; 7.6 Summary; 7.7 Exercises; Chapter 8: App Engine Datastore; 8.1 The Model-View-Controller Pattern; 8.2 Looking Through the Datastore; 8.3 Terminology: Different Types of Keys; 8.4 References Between Data Models; 8.5 Summary; 8.6 Exercises; Chapter 9: JavaScript, jQuery, and AJAX; 9.1 jQuery; 9.2 Create a View of the Chat Messages in HTML; 9.3 Asynchronously Updating a Using AJAX; 9.4 Summary; 9.5 Exercises; Chapter 10: Running Your Application on the Google Infrastructure; 10.1 Application Engine Accounts; 10.2 Creating an Application on App Engine; 10.3 Logs, Statistics, and Other Features; 10.4 Collaboration on Applications; 10.5 Summary; 10.6 Exercises; Chapter 11: Memory Cache; 11.1 The Rules of Memory Cache; 11.2 Using the Memory Cache; 11.3 Using the Application Console to Examine Memory Cache; 11.4 Using a Memory Cache in Your Application; 11.5 Building a Session Store Using Memory Cache; 11.6 Sessions and Memory Cache; 11.7 Summary; 11.8 Exercises; Installing and Running Google App Engine on Windows XP; Download and Install; Making Your First Application; Dealing with Errors; Shutting Down the Server; Installing and Running Google App Engine on Windows Vista; Download and Install; Making Your First Application; Dealing with Errors; Shutting Down the Server; Installing and Running Google App Engine on a Macintosh System; Download and Install; Making Your First Application; Dealing with Errors; Shutting Down the Server; Installing and Running Google App Engine on a Linux System; Checking for Python; Download and Install; Making Your First Application; Dealing with Errors; Shutting Down the Server; Colophon;