Authenticating users
The first requirement for our Notes application is showing the home page only to users who are logged in and redirect others to the login form; the users service provided by App Engine is exactly what we need and adding it to our MainHandler
class is quite simple:
import webapp2 from google.appengine.api import users class MainHandler(webapp2.RequestHandler): def get(self): user = users.get_current_user() if user is not None: self.response.write('Hello Notes!') else: login_url = users.create_login_url(self.request.uri) self.redirect(login_url) app = webapp2.WSGIApplication([ ('/', MainHandler) ], debug=True)
The user
package we import on the second line of the previous code provides access to users' service functionalities. ...
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