SOAP 1.2 Python client ?

BlueBird

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Mar 3, 2010, 11:32:12 AM3/3/10

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Hi,

I am looking for a SOAP 1.2 python client. To my surprise, it seems
that this does not exist. Does anybody know about this ?

The following clients seem to be both unmaintained and still
supporting only SOAP 1.1 :

- SUDS
- zsi
- SOAPy

cheers,

Philippe

Stefan Behnel

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Mar 3, 2010, 2:35:01 PM3/3/10

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BlueBird, 03.03.2010 17:32:

> I am looking for a SOAP 1.2 python client. To my surprise, it seems
> that this does not exist. Does anybody know about this ?

SOAP may be an overly bloated protocol, but it's certainly not black magic.
It's not hard to do manually if you really need to:

http://effbot.org/zone/element-soap.htm

Stefan

Waldemar Osuch

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Mar 4, 2010, 12:25:29 AM3/4/10

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On Mar 3, 9:32 am, BlueBird <p...@freehackers.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am looking for a SOAP 1.2 python client. To my surprise, it seems
> that this does not exist. Does anybody know about this ?
>
> The following clients seem to be both unmaintained and still
> supporting only SOAP 1.1 :
>
> - SUDS

suds unmaintained? I beg to differ.

BlueBird

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Mar 5, 2010, 5:01:06 AM3/5/10

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But this requires a goog knowloedge of SOAP, in order to parse
everything correctly. The reason I want to use a ready-made client is
that I have about zero knowledge about SOAP, and even more in the
differences between SOAP 1.1 and 1.2 .

cheers,

Philippe

lbolla

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Mar 5, 2010, 7:19:23 AM3/5/10

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I use a thin custom-made python wrapper around gSoap[1], which is tens
of times faster than ZSI.
L.

[1] http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~engelen/soapdoc2.html

BlueBird

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Mar 23, 2010, 8:38:37 AM3/23/10

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On 5 mar, 13:19, lbolla <lbo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 5, 10:01 am, BlueBird <p...@freehackers.org> wrote:
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> > On 3 mar, 20:35, Stefan Behnel <stefan...@behnel.de> wrote:
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> > > BlueBird, 03.03.2010 17:32:
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> > > > I am looking for aSOAP1.2 python client. To my surprise, it seems

> > > > that this does not exist. Does anybody know about this ?
>

> > >SOAPmay be an overly bloated protocol, but it's certainly not black magic.

> > > It's not hard to do manually if you really need to:
>
> > >http://effbot.org/zone/element-soap.htm
>

> > But this requires a goog knowloedge ofSOAP, in order to parse

> > everything correctly. The reason I want to use a ready-made client is

> > that I have about zero knowledge aboutSOAP, and even more in the
> > differences betweenSOAP1.1 and 1.2 .

>
> > cheers,
>
> > Philippe
>
> I use a thin custom-made python wrapper around gSoap[1], which is tens
> of times faster than ZSI.

I looked at gSoap and the solution seemed really nice. They can
generate C that I can call with ctypes.

The only problem is that I am working on a closed source software and
their licensing cost for close source were too expensive for my
company.

After much much digging, we found out the problem and managed to solve
it with SUDS. When calling a .NET service, you should not reference
the soap envelope spec with 'http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/
envelope/' but with 'http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope' .
The .NET server implementation seems to be very picky about the
last / .

Yeah for SUDS and oooooh for .NET

cheers,

Philippe