A simple wrapper for running a local instance of Google's Python AppEngine

localserver.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash
#
# Ken Frederick
# ken.frederick@gmx.de
#
# http://kennethfrederick.de/
# http://blog.kennethfrederick.de/
#
# A simple wrapper for running a local instance of Google's
# Python AppEngine
#

show_help() {
cat << EOF


    -d    (default ./) directory for your application and an app.yaml configuration file
    -p    (default 8080) set the port for server
    -s    (default ~/Documents/Development/google-cloud-sdk/platform/google_appengine)
          set location of Google Cloud SDK
    -h    display this help and exit, for more information about dev_appserver.py
          visit https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/python/tools/devserver


    $ ./localserver.sh
    # Launches a python server http://localhost:8080/ with the your app.yaml
    # in the same directory as this script

    $ ./localserver.sh -p 9999
    # Launches a python server http://localhost:9999/ with the your app.yaml
    # app in the same directory as this script

    $ ./localserver.sh -p 9999 -d ./app
    # Launches a python server http://localhost:9999/ with the your app.yaml
    # located in "./app"

    $ ./localserver.sh -s ~/path/to/google-cloud-sdk/bin
    # Launches a python server http://localhost:9999/ using the AppEngine SDK located at
    # "~/Documents/Development/google-cloud-sdk/platform/google_appengine" with the your
    # app.yaml in the same directory as this script

EOF
}

SDK=~/Documents/Development/google-cloud-sdk/platform/google_appengine
DIR=./
PORT=8080

while getopts ":s:d:p:h" OPTION
do
    case $OPTION in
        s)
            echo "Setting SDK directory to: $OPTARG"
            SDK=$OPTARG
            # exit
            ;;
        d)
            echo "Running app directory: $OPTARG"
            DIR=$OPTARG
            # exit
            ;;
        p)
            echo "Setting port to: $OPTARG"
            PORT=$OPTARG
            # exit
            ;;
         h)
            show_help
            exit 0
            ;;
    esac
done

echo "Running AppEngine Server..."
echo "------------------"

$SDK/dev_appserver.py $DIR --port=$PORT