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Building RESTful Python Web Services

You're reading from  Building RESTful Python Web Services

Product type Book
Published in Oct 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786462251
Pages 418 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Gaston C. Hillar Gaston C. Hillar
Profile icon Gaston C. Hillar

Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Building RESTful Python Web Services
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Developing RESTful APIs with Django 2. Working with Class-Based Views and Hyperlinked APIs in Django 3. Improving and Adding Authentication to an API With Django 4. Throttling, Filtering, Testing, and Deploying an API with Django 5. Developing RESTful APIs with Flask 6. Working with Models, SQLAlchemy, and Hyperlinked APIs in Flask 7. Improving and Adding Authentication to an API with Flask 8. Testing and Deploying an API with Flask 9. Developing RESTful APIs with Tornado 10. Working with Asynchronous Code, Testing, and Deploying an API with Tornado 11. Exercise Answers

Understanding synchronous and asynchronous execution


In our current version of the API, each HTTP request is blocking, as happened with Django and Flask. Thus, whenever the Tornado HTTP server receives an HTTP request, it doesn't start working on any other HTTP request in the incoming queue until the server sends the response for the first HTTP request it received. The methods we coded in the request handlers are working with a synchronous execution and they don't take advantage of the non-blocking features included in Tornado when combined with asynchronous executions.

In order to set the brightness level for both the blue and white LEDs, we have to make two HTTP PATCH requests. We will make them to understand how our current version of the API processes two incoming requests.

Open two Cygwin terminals in Windows or two Terminals in macOS or Linux, and write the following command in the first one. We will compose and send an HTTP request to set the brightness level for the blue LED to 255...

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