Cloud Endpoint API Client Library doesn't contain JAR file

Question

I've just followed exactly what was said in this tutorial and ran the command

/usr/local/google_appengine/endpointscfg.py get_client_lib java -bs gradle helloworld_api.NewsApi

I know my NewsApi service works, I've tested it on the Google APIs explorer.

I get a success message: API client library written to ./getNews-v1.zip

I extracted the zip and found the following files inside the folder (getNews):

No JAR file exists!! What do I use to set up the library in my Android client?

Any ideas? Thanks!

Answer 1

If you want a sources JAR and included dependencies to include in your project use '-bs default' or simply omit that option. Using '-bs gradle' or '-bs maven' assumes you are going to use one of those build tools to build a classes JAR yourself. The 'endpointscfg.py' of course won't compile sources to class files for you as it doesn't have knowledge of any Java environment.

More info in the docs:
https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/python/endpoints/endpoints_tool