Sanic Route Handler for User Session Management

This function is a Sanic-based Web API route handler that uses Sanic's session management to store and retrieve user data. It also uses Sanic's response object to return a JSON response.

Technology Stack : Sanic, Python built-in `hash` function, Python built-in `json` module

Code Type : Web API

Code Difficulty : Intermediate

                
                    
def random_sanic_route(request, session):
    # This function is a random Sanic route handler that uses the Sanic session management
    # to store and retrieve user data. It also uses Sanic's response object to return a JSON response.

    # Generate a random user ID
    user_id = str(hash(request.query.get('name', 'Anonymous')))

    # Set the user ID in the session
    session['user_id'] = user_id

    # Retrieve the user ID from the session
    retrieved_user_id = session.get('user_id')

    # Return a JSON response with the user ID
    return json.dumps({"user_id": retrieved_user_id})