tornado-rest

tornado_rest.py

import tornado.ioloop
import tornado.web


class RequestHandler(tornado.web.RequestHandler):
    REST_FIELD='__REST.METHOD'
    def prepare(self):
        method=self.request.method.lower()
        if method=='post':
            rest_method=self.get_argument(RequestHandler.REST_FIELD,None)
            if rest_method is not None:
                if rest_method.upper() not in RequestHandler.SUPPORTED_METHODS:
                    raise tornado.web.HTTPError(405)
                self.request.method=rest_method
    return super(RequestHandler,self).prepare()

			


class MainHandler(RequestHandler):
    def get(self):
        self.write("""
        	<form method="post">
        	<select name="__REST.METHOD">
        	<option value="get">GET</option>
        	<option value="post">POST</option>
        	<option value="delete">DELETE</option>
        	<option value="put">PUT</option>
        	<option value="python">Python</option>
        	</select>
        	<input type="submit" value="submit" />
        	</form>
        """)
    def post(self):
    	self.write("POST")
    
    def delete(self):
    	self.write("DELETE")
    
    def put(self):
    	self.write("PUT")
    
application = tornado.web.Application([
    (r"/", MainHandler),
])

if __name__ == "__main__":
    application.listen(8888)
    tornado.ioloop.IOLoop.instance().start()