tornado-problem-details 0.0.1

RFC-7807 Error documents for Tornado

This library provides a version of tornado.web.RequestHandler.send_error that speaks application/problem+json instead of HTML.

from tornado import web
import problemdetails


class MyHandler(problemdetails.ErrorWriter, web.RequestHandler):
   def get(self):
      try:
         self.do_something_hard()
      except SomeException as error:
         self.send_error(500, title="Failed to do_something_hard")

HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error
Content-Type: application/problem+json

{
   "title": "Failed to do_something_hard",
   "type": "https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-6.6.1"
}