In this lab, you will be deploying your APIs on Cloud Endpoints and API Gateway and

then securing both of the APIs.

Both these services are used to create and manage the APIs but API Gateway is
newer.

HOW IS CLOUD ENDPOINTS DIFFERENT FROM API GATEWAY?

--> Cloud Endpoints is a user-managed service whereas API Gateway is a fully

managed service.

--> Both support the same OpenAPI definition format.

The main difference is that API Gateway can route a request to multiple backends,
but Cloud Endpoints can route traffic only to a single backend. API Gateway can do
anything that Cloud Endpoints can do but vice versa is not always true.

-->Another notable difference is the processing of the host property in Open API
definitions:

> In Cloud Endpoints, it is mandatory and is set to the hostname part of the
URL.
For e.g. .appspot.com

> In API Gateway, it is not mandatory, the host property can be deleted or
left blank or it is set to the DNS Name of the deployed API.

Google Cloud Platform

3 ways to manage resouces in GCP:-
> Google cloud console
> API
> gcloud CLI

WHAT IS OAuth?
[OAuth (Open Authorization) is an open standard that allows a user to grant access
to their details on a third-party application with Google sign-in feature, without
having to expose their credentials to the application.
For example, when a user signs up using Google, upon signing up, Google responds
with an access token that is stored with Google and your application. Whenever the
user tries to log in to the application, a request is made to Google along with the
access token to verify the authenticity and validity of the token, upon
verification, Google responds with the requested data. Google never sends the
user's details back to the application. It only sends the details that are
specified in the scopes.]

Client ID: 714394623391-duu6v8mqtgv9ret2u1updmcuhbcfhint.apps.googleusercontent.com

Client Secret: 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

Service configuration: 2023-03-23r0

defaultHostname: ca-gateway-az9axqye.uc.gateway.dev

Lab Steps:
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1. Login to GCP
2. Creating a Client Application for Google Authentication --- Configure OAuth
Client ID
(console > APIs and Services > OAuth Consent Screen)
3. Configuring and Deploying the API Endpoints to the AppEngine --- Create a python
application to define endpoints and the underlying method for Cloud Endpoints that
will return the user's email id

# Step 3:
CONFIGURING AND DEPLOYING THE API ENDPOINTS TO THE AppEngine
- INTRODUCTION: An API Endpoint is simply one end of a communication channel. When
one application needs to communicate with another over the network, it has to hit
the endpoint URL to consume the API. Inside the endpoint, you have to define the
method that you need to call. Irrespective of the technology stack, both the
application and APIs can communicate.