Google App Engine Admin vs Application Admin

Question

I am building an application to deploy on GAE. It is a shopping application, and there will be users (administrators) who will need to login to the application and process incoming orders. My question is, from Google's perspective, an administrator role is more of a person who administers the application in terms of bringing it up or down, or has the ability to make changes to the datastore, view the console, etc, is that correct?

I'm asking because I'm not sure if I want to assign the people who will be filling orders as administrators from the GAE side of the house, I'm thinking that from within my application, I should have the users have their own roles, and assign those people as administrators within the application, since they don't have a need to be able to mess with the deployed application or app settings, etc.

Does that seem like a sensible approach?

Answer 1

Yes this is reasonable. You are correct that 'administrators' in a gae app are responsible for the program itself, not for what the app. You need your own authorization scheme to distinguish your application-level administrators from normal users.