A simple framework for Google App Engine (like Sinatra)?

Question

Is there a simple 'wrapper' framework for appengine? Something like Sinatra or Juno? So that one can write code like the following:

from juno import *

@route('/')
def index(web):
    return 'Juno says hi'

run()

UPDATE: I want to use the Python API (not Java) in GAE.

Answer 1

You should check out gaelyk. It's a lightweight framework on top of appengine that uses groovy.

Answer 2

No such framework has been released at this time, to the best of my knowledge (most people appear to be quite happy with Django I guess;-). You could try using Juno with this patch -- it doesn't seem to be quite ready for prime time, but then again, it IS a pretty tiny patch, maybe little more is needed to allow Juno to work entirely on GAE!

Answer 3

Another framework that I've been meaning to try out is Bloog. It is actually a blog engine for GAE but also provides a framework for developing other GAE apps.

Answer 4

I use web.py. It's really simple and doesn't get in your way.

This is how it looks:

import web

urls = (
    '/(.*)', 'hello'
)
app = web.application(urls, globals())

class hello:        
    def GET(self, name):
        if not name: 
            name = 'world'
        return 'Hello, ' + name + '!'

if __name__ == "__main__":
    app.run()

Answer 5

There are several frameworks either specifically for App Engine, or well suited to it:

• web.py - Not specifically for App Engine, but well suited.
• Google App Engine Oil
• web2py - Also not specifically for App Engine
• pyxer
• kay
• tipfy