Tornado HTTP Client for Random Quote Fetching

This function uses Tornado's httpclient module to asynchronously fetch a random quote. It defines a handler that uses an asynchronous HTTP client to get a random quote from https://api.quotable.io/random API and returns the result to the requestor.

Technology Stack : Tornado, httpclient

Code Type : Asynchronous HTTP request

Code Difficulty : Intermediate

                
                    
import tornado.ioloop
import tornado.web
import tornado.httpclient
import random

def fetch_random_quote():
    def make_handler(request, **kwargs):
        client = tornado.httpclient.AsyncHTTPClient()
        url = "https://api.quotable.io/random"
        def on_response(response):
            if response.code == 200:
                quote = response.body.decode('utf-8')
                return tornado.web.RequestHandler.write(self, quote)
            else:
                return tornado.web.RequestHandler.write(self, "Error fetching quote")
        client.fetch(url, on_response)
    
    return make_handler