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Gaston C. Hillar
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Gaston C. Hillar is Italian and has been working with computers since he was 8 years old. Gaston has a Bachelor's degree in computer science (graduated with honors) and an MBA. Currently, Gaston is an independent IT consultant and a freelance author who is always looking for new adventures anywhere in the world. He was a senior contributing editor at Dr. Dobb's, and has written more than a hundred articles on software development topics. He has received the prestigious Intel Black Belt Software Developer award eight times. He has written many articles about Java for Oracle Java Magazine. Gaston was also a former Microsoft MVP in technical computing. He lives with his wife, Vanesa, and his two sons, Kevin and Brandon.
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  1. The main building blocks for a RESTful API in Tornado are subclasses of which the following classes:

    1. tornado.web.GenericHandler

    2. tornado.web.RequestHandler

    3. tornado.web.IncomingHTTPRequestHandler

  2. If we just want to support the GET and PATCH methods, we can override the SUPPORTED_METHODS class variable with which of the following values:

    1. ("GET", "PATCH")

    2.  {0: "GET", 1: "PATCH"}

    3. {"GET": True, "PATCH": True, "POST": False, "PUT": False}

  3. The list of tuples for a the tornado.Web.Application constructor is composed of:

    1. A regular expression (regexp) and a tornado.web.RequestHandler subclass (request_class).

    2. A regular expression (regexp) and a tornado.web.GenericHandler subclass (request_class).

    3. A regular expression (regexp) and a tornado.web.IncomingHTTPRequestHandler subclass (request_class).

  4. When we call the self.write method with a dictionary as an argument in a request handler, Tornado:

    1. Automatically writes the chunk as JSON but we have to manually set the value of the...

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Gaston C. Hillar

Gaston C. Hillar is Italian and has been working with computers since he was 8 years old. Gaston has a Bachelor's degree in computer science (graduated with honors) and an MBA. Currently, Gaston is an independent IT consultant and a freelance author who is always looking for new adventures anywhere in the world. He was a senior contributing editor at Dr. Dobb's, and has written more than a hundred articles on software development topics. He has received the prestigious Intel Black Belt Software Developer award eight times. He has written many articles about Java for Oracle Java Magazine. Gaston was also a former Microsoft MVP in technical computing. He lives with his wife, Vanesa, and his two sons, Kevin and Brandon.
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