Jeff Douglas - Technology, Coding and Bears... OH MY! » Python http://blog.jeffdouglas.com Get your head out of your #@! and into the clouds! Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:04:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc Force.com Demo App on Google App Engine (Python) http://blog.jeffdouglas.com/2009/04/14/forcecom-google-app-engine-python/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=forcecom-google-app-engine-python http://blog.jeffdouglas.com/2009/04/14/forcecom-google-app-engine-python/#comments Tue, 14 Apr 2009 01:01:30 +0000 Jeff Douglas http://blog.jeffdouglas.com/?p=709 google_appengineWhen Google announced the other day that they were supporting Java I started to dream about all of the cool Java / Salesforce.com apps that I could write. Then I read through the Will it play in App Engine page and my heart skipped a beat. There in black and white it stated, “We do not currently support JAX-RPC or JAX-WS.” How was I supposed to write Salesforce.com integration application when I couldn’t invoke web services?

Devastated, I turned my efforts towards building a Force.com application on Google App Engine with Python. I had written a number of Python applications for Salesforce.com but I had always just called Apex web services when needed. I thought I would take a crack at the Python Toolkit. The installation was simple enough and the Toolkit includes a number of examples (unit test) to get you up and running quickly.

I threw together a small demo app that connects to my Developer Org and provides the following functionality:

  1. Create a new Account
  2. Search for Accounts by keyword
  3. View an Account and all Opportunities for the Account
  4. Create a new Opportunity for an Account

You can find the demo application and source code at https://jeffdouglas-salesforce1.appspot.com.

During the development process, I started to think of ways to get around the lack of web services functionality in the Java Early Look. Perhaps I could use Python to expose the Force.com platform as REST web services and have the Java Early Look call these services?

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