Name: Udacity Project 4

Description: App Engine application for the Udacity training course.

• App Engine

• Python

• Google Cloud Endpoints

1. Clone the conference application repository.
2. Update the value of application in app.yaml to the app ID you have registered in the App Engine admin console and would like to use to host your instance of this sample.
3. Update the values at the top of settings.py to reflect the respective client IDs you have registered in the Developer Console.
4. Update the value of CLIENT_ID in static/js/app.js to the Web client ID
5. (Optional) Mark the configuration files as unchanged as follows: $ git update-index --assume-unchanged app.yaml settings.py static/js/app.js
6. Run the app with the terminal command python conference.py, and ensure it's running by visiting your local server's address (by default localhost:8080.)
7. (Optional) Generate your client library(ies) with the endpoints tool.
8. Deploy your application.

In models.py, Session, SessionForm and SessionForms classes are defined. Session class is a Datastore model; SessionForm and SessionForms are ProtoRPC models.

Session class have the following properties and data types:

name - string 
highlights - string
speaker - string
duration - time
typeOfSession - string (array)
date - date
startTime - time

Name, highlights, speaker are defined as string data type. typOfSession is defined as repeated string data type so user can enter multiple types of sessions.

Both duration (in minutes) and startTime (in HH:MM format) are time-specific, thus both is definied as time data type. date (in %Y-%m-%d format) has date data type.

Conference is an ancestor/parent of Session. In conference.py, createSession calls an utility function _createSessionObject to create a session. The function initializes a session object and assisgns conference key as its parent.

Speaker is defined as string date type for both Session and SessionForm classes.

addSessionToWishlist(SessionKey)

You'll need to identify the session that you want to add to the wishlist. Session key is the url safe entity key of a session. You can use query getAllSessions() to obtain list of session keys.

getSessionsInWishlist()

getAllSessions() - Return all sessions

getPastSessions() - Return all past conferences before today

Non-workshop sessions is filtered by type, and sessions before 7pm is filtered by startTime. Query restriction for Datastore states that an inequality filter can be applied to at most one property.

To implement this endpoint, we can query by session type first and then filter the result by start time.

Implementation steps for featured speaker

1. Add task - Check for featured speaker when user adds a new session. If there's featured speaker, then add set_featured_speaker to task queue.
2. Define handler - SetFeaturedSpeakerHandler is implemented as the handler for set_featured_speaker, and it adds speaker to memecache.
3. Define endpoint - getFeaturedSpeaker is the endopoint for getting the latest featured speaker from memecache.