I'm trying to use spanner emulator and I followed the instructions reported here:
https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/emulator
to set it up.
I can use gcloud shell commands to create instance, database, tables, etc. and all works correctly.
But I am not able to use the Rest API directly to access the emulator, even though the google documentation reports it is possible not only to use google client libs to access the emulator, but also the rest api.
The first problem is that it is not clear if I have to use either the base URL
https://spanner.googleapis.com/
or
http://localhost:9020/
When I try with
http://localhost:9020/v1/parent=projects/local-project/instanceConfigs
I always returns and "Not found" message, which means the the Rest API ws are responding, but through gcloud commands I can manage such instance and project!
What am I wrong with?!
According to the official documentation :
Using the Cloud Spanner
Emulator
"The Cloud SDK provides a local, in-memory emulator, which you can
use to develop and test your applications for free without creating a
GCP Project or a billing account."
Therefore you should use the localhost (localhost:9020 for REST requests).
You should use http://localhost:9020 to access the emulator if you want to manually access the REST API, so you were on the right track there.
The URL should however be http://localhost:9020/v1/projects/test-project/instanceConfigs to list all instance configurations on the emulator. Use http://localhost:9020/v1/projects/test-project/instances to list all instances.
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When one creates an ASP.NET Core Web API in Visual Studio 2022, and tests it locally, one gets a convenient Swagger page built upon an OpenAPI definition, to test all HTTP endpoints.
However, when deployed and trying to access {path-to-api}/swagger, it returns a 404 Not Found error, even while on localhost, when both the API and the database is sitting on my own machine. Even if the database is in the Azure cloud, for that matter, it also works, if I put the Azure SQL Database connection string into appsettings.json.
So is there a way to achieve this, preferably without too much hassle? Or am I wrong in wanting this, do developers mostly test their APIs locally? Because I want the Swagger API online only for testing.
The problem is getting and using the swagger functionality into the cloud. Is it possible and good practice?
If you look at the startup, you will notice that the swagger is only loaded during a development session via an if check. Commenting that out, or expanding it based on evironment, will allow a published version to generate the page on the target host.
if (app.Environment.IsDevelopment())
{
app.UseSwagger();
app.UseSwaggerUI();
}
I generally do that for first publishes or to Dev/Test environments to see it running. Once it is not needed, I un-comment it back in.
Also it may be actually viable (turned on) in Dev or UAT server because one is also publishing the open api it to APIM (Azure api manager), which takes the api and generates its own development environment; away from an initial publish.
Also once published, it is not the default page, one still has to path to it such as .../swagger/index.html.
I'm aborting this mission to deploy the Swagger interface to Azure along with my API. It's bad security practice to make the HTTP request methods so visually available to all. So the answer to my question do developers mostly test their APIs locally, is apparently yes.
I wondered if I should remove the question, but I would like to make it still stand, in case anyone else is contemplating about doing the same thing - exposing an API online with the Swagger UI.
When running a Java Google App Engine through Eclipse (with Google Cloud Tools) I can inspect my Datastore through the admin dashboard (localhost:8080/_ah/admin/datastore).
Is it possible to access the Datastore Rest API? Where would I be able to do that? Is it running on the same port under a different path?
It looks like Eclipse is starting up dev_appserver.py and with this you can't use Datastore API.
I've never used the Datastore emulator, but that might allow you to use the API.
Another option is to use the live Datastore API for a test GAE project.
If you want to know the port in which the Datastore emulator is listening to calls is by default 8081 and can be changed with gcloud beta emulators datastore start --host-port=localhost:8081
Alternatively, if you want to manually access the Datastore API of your GCP project you can:
Use the Datastore Dashboard in the Cloud Console
Manually make use of the Datastore API as in Try this API feature.
Alternatively
I have been working on a NativeScript project that uses an API. The API project is on my MacBook and haven't deployed to anywhere yet. It's based on Laravel and I use Laravel Valet as development environment.
I can't test the mobile app on iPhone because the app can't connect to local API URL. I know Valet has "share" command, but because the API consumes another API -which has IP restrictions-, it doesn't work for me. Sharing a local domain via Valet's share command is something like a proxy as I understand, so the consumed API doesn't work on that proxy.
I also checked articles about how to share Macbook's network with iPhone, but it only shares the same network. I can't access the local API still.
Is there any other way that can resolve my issue? Maybe a Docker based solution? I am not that good at Docker, but I can give a try if it is possible with it.
https://ngrok.com/ will happily expose your local Laravel Valet server.
Looks like there's a bit of a walk through on that here too https://mannyisles.com/using-laravel-valet-and-ngrok/ which may help?
I completed the basic setup for Google Analytics and inserted the tracking code into my webpage(s). I can log in to analytics.google.com and see historical data just fine.
I have an admin page on my website where I want to display Google Analytics information to several users automatically (no additional logon req'd) and read that this is possible using the Embed API with Server-side Authorization.
I followed the instructions and created a Service Account that shows up under Service account keys in my Google API Manager portal. I also successfully ran 'sudo pip install --upgrade google-api-python-client' on my Cloud9 IDE and pushed the change to my hosting provider, Firebase, i.e. 'firebase deploy'. Lastly, I located and pasted my Analytics View ID in to the code sample provided with the Demo/Setup. My page is served with <!DOCTYPE html> declared.
I can't get it to work. Browser console says:
Uncaught TypeError: window.google.load is not a function
I am thinking that I am not invoking the get_access_token() in that Python module. In other words, I am thinking that server-side scripting is not supported with Firebase hosting.
Anyone know if and how to get Google Analytics Embed API with Server Side Authorization running with Firebase hosting?
This is not exactly a direct answer to your question, but rather an alternative solution to this problem. At least I’m using approach.
You can use Google Design Studio to build and embed amazing analytics and BI dashboards anywhere you like (also on your Admin website). But even easier would be to use Google’s authentication (via gmail) to provide access to select dashboards directly, as Google’s authentication and authorisation is likely more secure that your website’s.
I generated Access & Secret Key put it into Bucket Explorer just as I saw on their screenshots but I get an error that Keys are not recognized on AWS, so it keeps trying to connect to AWS. I have latest version for OS X.
Looking at the Bucket Explorer website, it sounds like you need a special version of their software -- however, the download link does not actually seem to have that version available. Have you contact the developers of Bucket Explorer about it?
Alternatively, you can use the Google Cloud Console to upload and access your data in Google Cloud Storage without depending on a particular client application.