Google Marketplace App - setting up test environments?

Question

In Google Console I am configuring Google Drive SDK. On configuration page it asks for

Open URL (This URL is used when the user opens an existing Google Drive item with your application).

It looks like I can only define only one URL, so how does one go about testing this functionality locally? I can switch the URL to point to a localhost but what if my app is already live and I need to debug locally?

Answer 1

It is one of the problems with Drive that there is little support for dev/test environments.

The only solution I can think of for your specific question is around host name resolution. Something like ...

1. Register a subdomain, driveopenhost.example.com
2. Have the DNS for driveopenhost cname to your actual host (eg. www.example.com)
3. On your development PC, configure /etc/hosts (or the windows equivalent) to resolve driveopenhost.example.com to 127.0.0.1