Tornado Asynchronous Handler

Question

I am attempting to implement get_current_user in the RequestHandler for Tornado, but I need the call to block while waiting on the asynchronous call to my database. Decorat

Answer 1

I thought Tornado allowed you to make either blocking or non-blocking requests.

Here is Tornado being used for both: https://bitbucket.org/nephics/tornado-couchdb/src/147579581b47/couch.py

Disclaimer: I know very little of Python and Tornado.