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Reputation: 1302

How to connect from iOS to a local Google App Engine Endpoint?

We have an iOS app that needs to connect to a Google App Engine Endpoint. The connection is done via Objective-C Google Api and the generated API from the App Engine Endpoint discovery file.

The code works well connecting to the appspot.com deployed application but we cannot manage to make a call to the local App Engine server running the same application.

The code to call the endpoint is (Swift code):

let myService =  GTLServiceMyService()
self.myService.authorizer = GTMOAuth2ViewControllerTouch.authForGoogleFromKeychainForName(kKeychainItemName,
        clientID: kClientID,
        clientSecret: kClientSecret)
let query = GTLQueryMyService.queryForContentsGetContents() as GTLQueryMyService
query.orderBy = "NAME"
self.myService.executeQuery(query, completionHandler: { (ticket: GTLServiceTicket!, object: AnyObject!, error: NSError!) -> Void in
    // Process the response
})

As I said the code is working but only with the appspot.com server, how to connect to the local server api? 

http://localhost:8080/_ah/api

Also a Objective-C example is good for us.

Thanks you

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1387

Answers (2)

seth bourget
seth bourget

Reputation: 11

regarding your question "As I said the code is working but only with the appspot.com server, how to connect to the local server api? "

Remember localhost on your phone refers to the phone's localhost which is different from your development machine's localhost. Localhost resolves to the IP address 127.0.0.1 (generally). So to connect to a locally running app engine instance you'll need to use that computer's IP address on your local network.

Upvotes: 0

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Reputation: 1302

Just to help anyone with the same problem the solution is to put this code after setting the authorizer object on myService (using Swift):

    (self.myService.authorizer as GTMOAuth2Authentication).shouldAuthorizeAllRequests = true
    self.myService.retryEnabled = true
    self.myService.fetcherService.allowLocalhostRequest = true
    self.myService.rpcURL = NSURL(string: "http://localhost:8080/_ah/api/rpc?prettyPrint=false")
    self.myService.apiVersion = "v1"

Upvotes: 2

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