Use GAE remote api with local (dev) installation

Question

Has anyone find to use the GAE remote api but instead of connecting to AppEngine to connect to localhost? For dev purposes of course

Answer 1

i was able to get this working by adding the following to the app.yaml file

builtins:
- remote_api: on

and then from the command line you can access the db, users, urlfetch or memcache modules

remote_api_shell.py -s localhost:8080

This will prompt you for the email and password but this is not important right now. the remote_api_shell.py is on my path from the google app engine directory