AppEngine testing User Service from the command-line

How can I test the user service from the command-line using curl?

Let's say I have a protoRPC service running and I issue something like:

curl -H 'content-type:application/json' -d '{"name":"test1"}' http://localhost:8080/api.context_create

but this service requires a logged-in user. How can I simulate one?

Solution

It looks like you need to do it in two steps (see this link for the details). The first is submitting a request to:

$ curl http://localhost:8000/_ah/login -d "email=youremail@here.com&action=Log+In" -c -

The response will look something like this:

localhost FALSE / FALSE 0 dev_appserver_login "youremail@here.com:False:0123456789101112"

You can then submit a request to your target page, using the cookie provided. In your case (assuming the above cookie) you could try:

curl -H 'content-type:application/json' \
    -d '{"name":"test1"}' \
    -b "dev_appserver_login="youremail@here.com:False:0123456789101112"" \
    http://localhost:8080/api.context_create