Does nitrous.io support the endpoint library?

Question

Developing a python project on the platform and attempting appengine endpoints.

import endpoints throws google.appengine.api.yaml_errors.EventError: the library "endpoints" is not supported. The full stack trace is below.

    Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/action/.google_appengine/dev_appserver.py", line 182, in <module>
    _run_file(__file__, globals())
  File "/home/action/.google_appengine/dev_appserver.py", line 178, in _run_file
    execfile(script_path, globals_)
  File "/home/action/.google_appengine/google/appengine/tools/devappserver2/devappserver2.py", line 695, in <module>
    main()
  File "/home/action/.google_appengine/google/appengine/tools/devappserver2/devappserver2.py", line 688, in main
    dev_server.start(options)
  File "/home/action/.google_appengine/google/appengine/tools/devappserver2/devappserver2.py", line 525, in start
    options.yaml_files)
  File "/home/action/.google_appengine/google/appengine/tools/devappserver2/application_configuration.py", line 556, in __init__
    server_configuration = ServerConfiguration(yaml_path)
  File "/home/action/.google_appengine/google/appengine/tools/devappserver2/application_configuration.py", line 82, in __init__
    self._yaml_path)
  File "/home/action/.google_appengine/google/appengine/tools/devappserver2/application_configuration.py", line 272, in _parse_configuration
    return appinfo_includes.ParseAndReturnIncludePaths(f)
  File "/home/action/.google_appengine/google/appengine/api/appinfo_includes.py", line 63, in ParseAndReturnIncludePaths
    appyaml = appinfo.LoadSingleAppInfo(appinfo_file)
  File "/home/action/.google_appengine/google/appengine/api/appinfo.py", line 1715, in LoadSingleAppInfo
    listener.Parse(app_info)
  File "/home/action/.google_appengine/google/appengine/api/yaml_listener.py", line 226, in Parse
    self._HandleEvents(self._GenerateEventParameters(stream, loader_class))
  File "/home/action/.google_appengine/google/appengine/api/yaml_listener.py", line 177, in _HandleEvents
    raise yaml_errors.EventError(e, event_object)
google.appengine.api.yaml_errors.EventError: the library "endpoints" is not supported
  in "./app.yaml", line 21, column 1

Answer 1

1. Start with a non-python project.

2. Download appengine for Linux python:

   curl -O http://googleappengine.googlecode.com/files/google_appengine_1.8.9.zip

3. Unzip and export directory in ~/.bash_profile:

   export PATH="$HOME/google_appengine:$PATH"

4. Build endpoint python app as described and run dev_appserver.py.

5. You can't view the Google APIs Explorer when launched from Nitrous.io, unless you port forward, but you can still use as a developing endpoint.