This is an illustration example of combining the async framework Tornado with async MongoDB driver Motor and Elasticsearch search engine.

The result presents a very simple and minimalistic restful API for creating news.

Features:

• Create news posts. See details about one or many post
• Paginated results
• Search posts
• Posts validation on creation

• docker-compose 1.11.2 or later

git clone https://github.com/dimmg/newsp.git

make start

SSH into the running newsp container and start the server

docker exec -it newsp bash
python run.py

By having a running server, execute

docker inspect newsp

where IPAddress it is the address of the running application.

To access the API navigate to http://{{IPAddress}}:5000.

• GET /news - retrieve all posts
• GET /news/<news_uuid> - retrieve specific post
• POST /news - create post
• GET /search - search posts by subject and

** Note that this is a stub just for demonstration purposes. Many use cases have not been taken into consideration.