# Utility Functions - Google App Engine - Google Code

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# Utility Functions

The `google.appengine.webapp.util` package provides the following functions:

@login_required

  A Python annotation for webapp request handler methods that verifies that the user is signed in with a Google account, and redirects the user to the sign-in page if not signed in. The sign-in page redirects back to the request URL.

  This annotation only works for GET requests.

      from google.appengine.api import users
      from google.appengine.ext import webapp
      from google.appengine.ext.webapp.util import login_required

      class MyHandler(webapp.RequestHandler):

          @login_required
          def get(self):
              user = users.get_current_user()
              self.response.out.write('Hello, ' + user.nickname())

run_wsgi_app(application)

  Runs a WSGI application in App Engine's CGI environment. This is comparable to using a WSGI-to-CGI adaptor such as the one provided by the `wsgiref` module of the Python standard library, but has several advantages: run_wsgi_app() automatically detects whether the application is running in the development server, and if so outputs errors to the browser in addition to the log. Also, `CGIHandler` doesn't fully accommodate long running processes and may leak data between requests through environment variables. run_wsgi_app() properly resets the environment between requests, and is the recommended way to start a WSGI app on App Engine.

  Arguments:

  application
    A WSGI application object, such as webapp.WSGIApplication.

      from google.appengine.ext import webapp
      from google.appengine.ext.webapp.util import run_wsgi_app

      class MainPage(webapp.RequestHandler):
          def get(self):
              self.response.headers['Content-Type'] = 'text/plain'
              self.response.out.write('Hello, webapp World!')

      application = webapp.WSGIApplication([('/', MainPage)],
                                           debug=True)

      def main():
          run_wsgi_app(application)

      if __name__ == "__main__":
          main()