The next 2 weeks are dedicated to finishing the development of the Data Store on the Google App Engine. I want to have a solid testing framework setup for the Data Store REST API before I integrate 3scale. This will allow me to ensure that the API is working perfectly without having to manually test everything. This will also make it possible to do regression testing.

Last week, I got distracted trying to eliminate errors that dev_server.py was generating because it was trying to include packages from site-packages that it did not require for the project. I attempted to resolve this issue by creating a buildout for GAE projects that I could use in combination with virtualenv –no-site-packages configuration. This did not work because GAE was attempting to load packages from system’s python instead of looking in virtualenv directory. I’m not going to bother trying to resolve this anymore, I’ll just have to live with the errors.

Ok, on I go.