Appengine remote_api example on OS X

The appengine team recently published an article on using remote_api, a new feature for accessing your appengine data store from a remote process. In the example they start off with a script that will allow you to get a console into your data store. The code on the site doesn't work as in for Mac OS X.

Below you'll find an updated example that does work for Mac. Basically you have to add the yaml lib directory to the sys.path.

#!/usr/bin/python
import code
import getpass
import os
import sys

DIR_PATH = "/Applications/GoogleAppEngineLauncher.app/Contents/Resources/GoogleAppEngine-default.bundle/Contents/Resources/google_appengine"

EXTRA_PATHS = [
  DIR_PATH,
  os.path.join(DIR_PATH, 'lib', 'yaml', 'lib'),
]

sys.path = EXTRA_PATHS + sys.path

from google.appengine.ext.remote_api import remote_api_stub
from google.appengine.ext import db

def auth_func():
  return raw_input('Username:'), getpass.getpass('Password:')

if len(sys.argv) < 2:
  print "Usage: %s app_id [host]" % (sys.argv[0],)
app_id = sys.argv[1]
if len(sys.argv) > 2:
  host = sys.argv[2]
else:
  host = '%s.appspot.com' % app_id

remote_api_stub.ConfigureRemoteDatastore(app_id, '/remote_api', auth_func, host)

code.interact('App Engine interactive console for %s' % (app_id,), None, locals())

That's all it takes. Hope you find it helpful. I'll also drop a line to the appengine team to let them know about these changes.