October 2016
Intermediate to advanced
418 pages
9h 52m
English
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Chapter 10. Working with Asynchronous Code, Testing, and Deploying an API with Tornado
In this chapter, we will take advantage of the non-blocking features combined with asynchronous operations in Tornado in a new version for the API we built in the previous chapter. We will configure, write, and execute unit tests and learn a few things related to deployment. We will cover the following topics:
- Understanding synchronous and asynchronous execution
- Working with asynchronous code
- Refactoring code to take advantage of asynchronous decorators
- Mapping URL patterns to asynchronous and non-blocking request handlers
- Making HTTP requests to the Tornado non-blocking API
- Setting up unit tests
- Writing a first round of unit tests
- Running unit tests with
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