Integrating Prestans into a GAE/Django project

[Simon Morris]

Hi Bradley and Devraj.

Firstly thank you for Prestans. I've been looking for a REST framework
for Google App Engine for ages, and I've been suffering with Piston
for too long!

Piston is great, but it's internals don't really work that well on GAE.

So... my question is how to integrate Prestans into a Django
application running on Google App Engine

I have my urls.conf setup to route request objects to different
functions - how do I define a URL and a REST handler using Prestan?

Thanks again

Simon

[Devraj Mukherjee]

Hi Simon,

Thanks a lot for checking prestans out. prestans was built around
AppEngine and we have done nearly all our testing under AppEngine.

prestans comes with its own url handler a basic usage described here,
http://code.google.com/p/prestans/wiki/GettingStartedPython#Under_Google_App_Engine

Basically your REST url base in app.yaml would point to the prestans
URL handler script and you would map your REST URLs using the prestans
handler.

To be honest we hadn't considered integration with Django's URL
handler, but its a good point, we will add this as a feature request
and look at providing it as part of our initial release.

As part of our initial agenda we were aiming for an WSGI compliant framework.

We are working on integration with the cache and authentication
framework, should be out shortly. The framework is being tested across
multiple AppEngine projects we are working on, so we can assure all
features are AppEngine compatible.

I noticed that our documentation is slightly out of date as well, we
have changed a few things, I will aim to update it by the end of the
week.

If you are keen to use prestans do develop the REST layer of your
application, we would be keen to assist you, we need a few testers :)

Happy to help with any further questions and thanks for having a look.

[Devraj Mukherjee]

Please follow Issue 18
http://code.google.com/p/prestans/issues/detail?id=18

Thanks.