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

Tornado's IOloop.instance() has trouble stopping from an external signal when run under multiprocessing.Process.

The only solution I came up with that works consistently, is by using Process.terminate():

import tornado.ioloop, tornado.web
import time
import multiprocessing

class Handler(tornado.web.RequestHandler):
    def get(self):
        self.write("Hello, world")

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

class TornadoStop(Exception):
    pass
def stop():
    raise TornadoStop
class worker(multiprocessing.Process):
    def __init__(self):
        multiprocessing.Process.__init__(self)
        application.listen(8888)
        self.ioloop = tornado.ioloop.IOLoop.instance()

    def run(self):
        self.ioloop.start()

    def stop(self, timeout = 0):
        self.ioloop.stop()
        time.sleep(timeout)
        self.terminate()



if __name__ == "__main__":

    w = worker()
    print 'starting server'
    w.start()
    t = 2
    print 'waiting {} seconds before stopping'.format(t)
    for i in range(t):
        time.sleep(1)
        print i
    print 'stopping'
    w.stop(1)
    print 'stopped'

Answer 2

Here is the solution how to stop Torando from another thread. Schildmeijer provided a good hint, but it took me a while to actually figure the final example that works.

Please see below:

import threading
import tornado.ioloop
import tornado.web
import time


class MainHandler(tornado.web.RequestHandler):
    def get(self):
        self.write("Hello, world!\n")

def start_tornado(*args, **kwargs):
    application = tornado.web.Application([
        (r"/", MainHandler),
    ])
    application.listen(8888)
    print "Starting Torando"
    tornado.ioloop.IOLoop.instance().start()
    print "Tornado finished"

def stop_tornado():
    ioloop = tornado.ioloop.IOLoop.instance()
    ioloop.add_callback(ioloop.stop)
    print "Asked Tornado to exit"

def main():

    t = threading.Thread(target=start_tornado)  
    t.start()

    time.sleep(5)

    stop_tornado()
    t.join()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

Answer 3

Just add this before the start():

IOLoop.instance().add_timeout(10,IOLoop.instance().stop)

It will register the stop function as a callback in the loop and lauch it 10 second after the start