''' Provide a request handler that returns a json with metadata information from the application ''' from __future__ import absolute_import, print_function import json import logging log = logging.getLogger(__name__) from tornado import gen from .session_handler import SessionHandler class MetadataHandler(SessionHandler): ''' Implements a custom Tornado handler for document display page ''' @gen.coroutine def get(self, *args, **kwargs): url = self.application_context.url userdata = self.application_context.application.metadata if callable(userdata): userdata = userdata() if userdata is None: userdata = {} metadata = dict(url=url, data=userdata) self.set_header("Content-Type", 'application/json') self.write(json.dumps(metadata))