Question

I’m trying to describe endpoints in my App Engine app and am having difficulty for directory structures that mix static and dynamic content. But my yaml rules are conflicting with one another. Before I change my directory structure, does anyone have a recommendation?

The goal is to create a directory that contains both documentation (static html files) and implementations.

/api
  - /v1
    - getitdone.py
  - doc.html
  - index.html

What I think I should be doing with my application yaml…

- url: /api/v1/getitdone
  script: api/v1/getitdone.py

- url: /api/
  static_files: api/index.html
  upload: api/index.html  

- url: /api
  static_dir: api

But this causes the dynamic endpoints to fail. I’m assuming the static_dir reference is breaking it. How can I do this without describing every script and static file reference (I have many more than are listed here)?

Answer 1

The cause of this is that you’re marking /api/ as a static directory, so your scripts are getting uploaded as static files, which makes them inaccessible to the App Engine runtime.

The easiest solution would be to put your dynamic code and your static resources in different parts of your app’s directory heirarchy, and use app.yaml to map them into the desired URL structure.