Building RESTful APIs with Tornado

Nice Tornado Article.

http://www.drdobbs.com/open-source/building-restful-apis-with-tornado/240160382

from datetime import date

import tornado.escape

import tornado.ioloop

import tornado.web

 

class VersionHandler(tornado.web.RequestHandler):

    def get(self):

        response = { 'version': '3.5.1',

                     'last_build':  date.today().isoformat() }

        self.write(response)

 

class GetGameByIdHandler(tornado.web.RequestHandler):

    def get(self, id):

        response = { 'id': int(id),

                     'name': 'Crazy Game',

                     'release_date': date.today().isoformat() }

        self.write(response)

 

application = tornado.web.Application([

    (r"/getgamebyid/([0-9]+)", GetGameByIdHandler),

    (r"/version", VersionHandler)

])

 

if __name__ == "__main__":

    application.listen(8888)

    tornado.ioloop.IOLoop.instance().start()