GAE cloud endpoints - Api not updating after deploy

Question

I'm starting to use cloud endpoints in my GAE project but have been running into issues with the api not updating on the server.

• localhost:8888/_ah/api/explorer is ok.

But when I deploy, nothing changes.

• myapp.appspot.com:8888/_ah/api/explorer is bad

Further investigation shows the url end points update example: https://myapp.appspot.com/_ah/api/myapp/v1/foo/list

But the loaded client api is still incorrect. example: gapi.client.load('myapp', 'v1', callback, url); gapi.client.myapp.foo.list();

If I changed the call from foo/list to foo/list2, the rest url would update, the api package would not.

Answer 1

I'll try to cover the two cases people could run into:

Client Side:

The Google APIs Explorer web app aggressively caches, so you'll need to clear your cache or force a refresh when you update your API server side to see the changes in the client.

Server Side (In Deployed Production App Engine App):

If you're having deployment issues, there are two places to look when debugging:

• Check your Admin Logs (https://appengine.google.com/adminlogs?&app_id=s~YOUR-APP-ID) after deployment. After a successful deployment of your application code, you should see the message:

  Completed update of a new default version
  

  and shortly after that you should see:

  Successfully updated API configuration
  

  If you this message indicates the API configuration update failed, you should deploy again. If said error is persistent, you should notify us of a bug. If you don't see any message about your API configuration, you should check that the path /_ah/spi/.* is explicitly named in your routing config (app.yaml for Python, web.xml for Java).

• Check your Application Logs (https://appengine.google.com/logs?&app_id=s~YOUR-APP-ID) after deployment. After the deployment finishes, Google's API infrastructure makes a request to /_ah/spi/BackendService.getApiConfigs in your application so that your API configuration (as JSON) can be registered with Google's API infrastructure and all the discovery-related configs can be created. If this request does not complete with a 200, then your API changes will not show up since Google's API infrastructure will have nothing to register.

• If you are consistently getting a 302 redirect for requests to /_ah/spi/BackendService.getApiConfigs, it is because you (or your generated API config) have specified a "bns adapter" that uses http: as the protocol in your API root, but your web.xml (Java) or app.yaml (Python) is required that paths through /_ah/spi are secure. This will make requests using http: as the protocol be redirected (using 302) to the same page with https: as the protocol. This was discussed on the Trusted Tester forum before going to Experimental.

Answer 2

This is what happened to me.

I tested my endpoint on localhost and it worked fine.

I deployed my endpoint on appspot and when I made requests to it I received in the browser the message 'Not found'.

So I looked in the logs and when I made requests to the endpoint I saw a 404 http error code on favicon file. And in effects I forgot to put that file in my deploy.

So I redeployed my war with the favicon file, the 404 http code disappeared and the endpoint worked fine on appspot too!

I realize that this may sound silly, but it is what I experienced. (I apologize for my poor english)

Answer 3

I noticed that if you upload your app for the first time without the following in your web.xml:

 <security-constraint>
        <web-resource-collection>
            <url-pattern>/_ah/spi/*</url-pattern>
        </web-resource-collection>
        <user-data-constraint>
            <transport-guarantee>CONFIDENTIAL</transport-guarantee>
        </user-data-constraint>
    </security-constraint>

Then your bns adapter will be set as http going forward. When I add the above afterwards, I get 302 http code on /_ah/spi/BackendService.getApiConfigs and the endpoints never update.

So now I have reverted to not use https on /_ah/spi and my endpoints are updating. I guess for those that see their endpoints not being updated revert back to the first configuration they had for ssl on /_ah/spi/.

Yaw.

Answer 4

I had the same error Not Found (the 404 error code) when I was calling my API using this URL

https: // MY_APP_ID.appspot.com / _ah / api / MY_SERVICE / v1 / user

I tried everything and finally fixed it by removing the discovery files from WEB-INF and kept only MY_SERVICE-v1.api and then redeployed the API. It works fine now.

Answer 5

I was also getting stale API discovery doc after deploying new version, it took a couple of minutes for GAE to start serving the new one to me.

Answer 6

I had the same problem, and I checked the admin logs, other logs etc... but still my API wasn't updating to the latest version.

So I decided to check in the API code for the last method I had written (I am writing in Java 7). And I found out that GAE doesn't like statements like:

if (!blocked){ .... }

I switched that to:

if (blocked == false) { ... }

And it worked like a charm. So by the looks of it, GAE scans the new API methods and doesn't accept some shortcuts.