I've never used SOAP before and I'm sort of new to Python. I'm doing this to get myself acquainted with both technologies. I've installed SOAPlib and I've tried to read their Client documentation, but I don't understand it too well. Is there anything else I can look into which is more suited for being a SOAP Client library for Python?
Edit: Just in case it helps, I'm using Python 2.6.
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As I suggested here I recommend you roll your own. It's actually not that difficult and I suspect that's the reason there aren't better Python SOAP libraries out there.
We released a new library: PySimpleSOAP, that provides support for simple and functional client/server. It goals are: ease of use and flexibility (no classes, autogenerated code or xml is required), WSDL introspection and generation, WS-I standard compliance, compatibility (including Java AXIS, .NET and Jboss WS). It is included into Web2Py to enable full-stack solutions (complementing other supported protocols such as XML_RPC, JSON, AMF-RPC, etc.).
If someone is learning SOAP or want to investigate it, I think it is a good choice to start.
SUDS is the way to go, no question about it.
Im using SOAPpy with Python 2.5.3 in a production setting.
I had to manually edit a couple of files in SOAPpy (something about header code being in the wrong place) but other than that it worked and continues to do so very reliably.
We'd used SOAPpy from Python Web Services, but it seems that ZSI (same source) is replacing it.
Could this help: http://users.skynet.be/pascalbotte/rcx-ws-doc/python.htm#SOAPPY
I found it by searching for wsdl and python, with the rational being, that you would need a wsdl description of a SOAP server to do any useful client wrappers....
As I suggested here I recommend you roll your own. It's actually not that difficult and I suspect that's the reason there aren't better Python SOAP libraries out there.
SUDS is the way to go, no question about it.
Im using SOAPpy with Python 2.5.3 in a production setting.
I had to manually edit a couple of files in SOAPpy (something about header code being in the wrong place) but other than that it worked and continues to do so very reliably.
We'd used SOAPpy from Python Web Services, but it seems that ZSI (same source) is replacing it.
I followed the advice of other answers to this question and gave SUDS a try. After using it "in anger" I must agree: SUDS is very nice! Highly recommended!
I did run into trouble calling HTTPS-based web services from behind a proxy. At the time of this writing, this affects all Python web-service clients that use urllib2, so I'll document the solution here.
The urllib2 module shipping with python 2.6.2 and below will not issue a CONNECT to the proxy for HTTPS-over-HTTP-proxy sessions. This results in a long timeout, or if you are lucky, an error that looks like:
abort: error: error:140770FC:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:unknown protocol
This was issue1424152 on the Python bug tracker. There are patches attached to the bug report that will fix this in Python 2.x and Python 3.x. The issue is already fixed.
Could this help: http://users.skynet.be/pascalbotte/rcx-ws-doc/python.htm#SOAPPY
I found it by searching for wsdl and python, with the rational being, that you would need a wsdl description of a SOAP server to do any useful client wrappers....
suds is pretty good. I tried SOAPpy but didn't get it to work in quite the way I needed whereas suds worked pretty much straight away.
I believe soaplib has deprecated its SOAP client ('sender') in favor of suds. At this point soaplib is focused on being a web framework agnostic SOAP server ('receiver'). Currently soaplib is under active development and is usually discussed in the Python SOAP mailing list:
suds is pretty good. I tried SOAPpy but didn't get it to work in quite the way I needed whereas suds worked pretty much straight away.
We'd used SOAPpy from Python Web Services, but it seems that ZSI (same source) is replacing it.
As I suggested here I recommend you roll your own. It's actually not that difficult and I suspect that's the reason there aren't better Python SOAP libraries out there.
Just an FYI warning for people looking at SUDS, until this ticket is resolved, SUDS does not support the "choice" tag in WSDL:
https://fedorahosted.org/suds/ticket/342
see: suds and choice tag
SUDS is easy to use, but is not guaranteed to be re-entrant. If you're keeping the WSDL Client() object around in a threaded app for better performance, there's some risk involved. The solution to this risk, the clone() method, throws the unrecoverable Python 5508 bug, which seems to print but not really throw an exception. Can be confusing, but it works. It is still by far the best Python SOAP client.
I had good experience with SUDS https://fedorahosted.org/suds
Used their TestSuite as documentation.
In my conclusion we have this:
Soap client side:
use only Suds-jurko (updated 2016)
suds is well maintained and updated.
UPDATE 06/2017: suds-jurko library is not updated and apparently abandoned,
I tested zeep library but got limitations around tokens, by now just support UsernameToken, i report a bug to create timestamp token and author update the code to fix it.
Zeep start good and has good documentation , so i recently migrated my code from suds to zeep and works fine.
Soap server side:
We have TGWS, soaplib (pysimplesoap not tested) IMHO use and help soaplib must be the choice.
Best regards,
In my conclusion we have this:
Soap client side:
use only Suds-jurko (updated 2016)
suds is well maintained and updated.
UPDATE 06/2017: suds-jurko library is not updated and apparently abandoned,
I tested zeep library but got limitations around tokens, by now just support UsernameToken, i report a bug to create timestamp token and author update the code to fix it.
Zeep start good and has good documentation , so i recently migrated my code from suds to zeep and works fine.
Soap server side:
We have TGWS, soaplib (pysimplesoap not tested) IMHO use and help soaplib must be the choice.
Best regards,
Could this help: http://users.skynet.be/pascalbotte/rcx-ws-doc/python.htm#SOAPPY
I found it by searching for wsdl and python, with the rational being, that you would need a wsdl description of a SOAP server to do any useful client wrappers....
I believe soaplib has deprecated its SOAP client ('sender') in favor of suds. At this point soaplib is focused on being a web framework agnostic SOAP server ('receiver'). Currently soaplib is under active development and is usually discussed in the Python SOAP mailing list:
As I suggested here I recommend you roll your own. It's actually not that difficult and I suspect that's the reason there aren't better Python SOAP libraries out there.
SUDS is easy to use, but is not guaranteed to be re-entrant. If you're keeping the WSDL Client() object around in a threaded app for better performance, there's some risk involved. The solution to this risk, the clone() method, throws the unrecoverable Python 5508 bug, which seems to print but not really throw an exception. Can be confusing, but it works. It is still by far the best Python SOAP client.
We released a new library: PySimpleSOAP, that provides support for simple and functional client/server. It goals are: ease of use and flexibility (no classes, autogenerated code or xml is required), WSDL introspection and generation, WS-I standard compliance, compatibility (including Java AXIS, .NET and Jboss WS). It is included into Web2Py to enable full-stack solutions (complementing other supported protocols such as XML_RPC, JSON, AMF-RPC, etc.).
If someone is learning SOAP or want to investigate it, I think it is a good choice to start.
I had good experience with SUDS https://fedorahosted.org/suds
Used their TestSuite as documentation.
Just an FYI warning for people looking at SUDS, until this ticket is resolved, SUDS does not support the "choice" tag in WSDL:
https://fedorahosted.org/suds/ticket/342
see: suds and choice tag
I had good experience with SUDS https://fedorahosted.org/suds
Used their TestSuite as documentation.
Could this help: http://users.skynet.be/pascalbotte/rcx-ws-doc/python.htm#SOAPPY
I found it by searching for wsdl and python, with the rational being, that you would need a wsdl description of a SOAP server to do any useful client wrappers....
We'd used SOAPpy from Python Web Services, but it seems that ZSI (same source) is replacing it.
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