tornado-api-kit
A collection of routines for building web APIs on top of Tornado web server.
Features
- Automatic support multiple response formats (JSON, JSONP, XML)
- Pluggable authentication
- Error handling
Example usage
import apikit
# Returning objects as response (only basic JSON-encodable types supported):
class MyApiHander(apikit.ApiHandler):
def get(self):
self.write_response({'result' : 'sucess',
'x' : 1, y : [1,2,3]})
# Authentication:
class MyProtectedResourceBase(apikit.ProtectedResource):
def authenticate(self, callback):
if self.get_argument('password') != '12345':
raise tornado.web.HTTPError(403, "Incorrect or missing password!")
callback()
class MyProtectedResource(MyProtectedResourceBase):
def get(self):
...Installation
$ pip install tornado-api-kit
