Testing the API with API Explorer
We can test our REST API on the local development environment by running the dev_appserver.py script or deploying the application on App Engine. In both cases, Cloud Endpoints provides a tool that let us explore our API; let's see how.
With the local development server running, we point the browser to the http://localhost:8080/_ah/api/explorer URL, and we are immediately redirected to the API Explorer, where we can see our API listed, as shown in the following screenshot:
When we click on our API name, the explorer lists all the endpoints exposed through the Cloud Endpoints service. Before we begin our test, we should ...
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