Magic 8-Ball example (Bottle, Redis, JSON)

8ball.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

import random

from bottle import route, run, request, install
from bottle_redis import RedisPlugin

install(RedisPlugin())

@route('/ask')
def read_json(rdb):
    nchoices = rdb.llen('answers')
    answers = rdb.lrange('answers', 0, nchoices - 1)
    return { 'answer': random.choice(answers) }

@route('/answers', method='POST')
def write_json(rdb):
    rdb.delete('answers')
    for answer in request.json['answers']:
        rdb.lpush('answers', answer)

run(host='0.0.0.0', port=8080, debug=True, reloader=True)