Which credentials should I put in for Google App Engine BulkLoader at development server?

Question

I would like to ask which kind of credentials do I need to put on for importing data using the Google App Engine BulkLoader class

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Answer 1

EUREKA: I found the way to use the bulkloader.py tool without having to manually enter login credentials.

Here are the 2 steps:

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Set your app.yaml file up. Example:

- url: /remote_api
  script: $PYTHON_LIB/google/appengine/ext/remote_api/handler.py
  login: admin

You should put it BEFORE your - url: .* line in app.yaml, otherwise you will never access the /remote_api url.

Note that I've left the login: admin part, as removing it is a VERY BAD practice, since you might deploy that into production...

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2 Launch this command (adapt it to your needs).

echo 'XX' | python2.5 ../google_appengine/bulkloader.py --dump --kind=NAMEOFMODEL --url=http://localhost:8080/remote_api --filename=FILENAME --app_id=APPID --email=foobar@nowhere.com --passin .

The trick is to use the combination of those 2 parameters:

• --email= (you can put whichever email address you want, I use foobar@nowhere.com)
• --passin

Specifying --email= will suppress the "enter credentials" prompt, and --passin will allow to read the password from stdin (that's where the echo 'XX' | comes into play!)

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Enjoy!

P.S.: Don't forget to vote so that Google can provide an easier to use way to do that: Issue 2440.