Using a simple python generator as a co-routine in a Tornado async handler?

Question

I have a python generator function which yields chunks of text. I would like to write a get method for a tornado.web.RequestHandler subclass that w

Answer 1

It is also possible to use the new tornado's gen interface to async processes:

import tornado.httpserver
import tornado.ioloop
import tornado.web
import tornado.gen

class TextHandler(tornado.web.RequestHandler):

    @tornado.web.asynchronous
    @tornado.gen.engine
    def get(self):

        def cb(it, callback):
            try:
                value = it.next()
            except StopIteration:
                value = None
            callback(value)

        it = self.generate_text(1000)
        while True:
            response = yield tornado.gen.Task(cb, it)
            if response:
                self.write(response)
            else:
                break
        self.finish()

    def generate_text(self, n):
        for x in xrange(n):
            if not x % 15:
                yield "FizzBuzz\n"
            elif not x % 5:
                yield "Buzz\n"
            elif not x % 3:
                yield "Fizz\n"
            else:
                yield "%s\n" % x

application = tornado.web.Application([
    (r"/text/", TextHandler),
])

http_server = tornado.httpserver.HTTPServer(application)
http_server.listen(8888)
tornado.ioloop.IOLoop.instance().start()