How do I stop Tornado web server?

Question

I\'ve been playing around a bit with the Tornado web server and have come to a point where I want to stop the web server (for example during unit testing). The following sim

Answer 1

We want to use a multiprocessing.Process with a tornado.ioloop.IOLoop to work around the cPython GIL for performance and independency. To get access to the IOLoop we need to use Queue to pass the shutdown signal through.

Here is a minimalistic example:

class Server(BokehServer)

    def start(self, signal=None):
        logger.info('Starting server on http://localhost:%d'
                    % (self.port))

        if signal is not None:
            def shutdown():
                if not signal.empty():
                    self.stop()
            tornado.ioloop.PeriodicCallback(shutdown, 1000).start()

        BokehServer.start(self)
        self.ioloop.start()

    def stop(self, *args, **kwargs):  # args important for signals
        logger.info('Stopping server...')
        BokehServer.stop(self)
        self.ioloop.stop()

The Process

import multiprocessing as mp
import signal

from server import Server  # noqa

class ServerProcess(mp.Process):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        self.server = Server(*args, **kwargs)
        self.shutdown_signal = _mp.Queue(1)
        mp.Process.__init__(self)

        signal.signal(signal.SIGTERM, self.server.stop)
        signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, self.server.stop)

    def run(self):
        self.server.start(signal=self.shutdown_signal)

    def stop(self):
        self.shutdown_signal.put(True)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    p = ServerProcess()
    p.start()

Cheers!