AIOHTTP Server In Python

aiohttpinit.py

"""Main file for performing url shortening"""
from aiohttp import web

# instead of adding routes one by one we use the RouteTtableDef which will auto collect all @route annotations
routes = web.RouteTableDef()

# this will create a route 127.0.0.1:8000/shorten
@routes.get("/shorten")
async def shorten(request):
    """Function to accept HTTP request with long url & call shortening logic
    :param request: HTTP request
    """    
    return web.Response(text="Hello, World !!!")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    # initialize a webapp named app
    app = web.Application()
    # add routes for the app, in our case we only have /shorten
    app.add_routes(routes)
    # run the web app
    web.run_app(app, host="127.0.0.1", port=8000)