| Name |
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Section |
Page |
Version |
Status |
Reviewed |
Author(s) |
| ZSI Client for SOAP Controller with Optio's Soaplib |
Pylons Cookbook |
Controllers |
ZSI Client for SOAP Controller with Optio's Soaplib |
1.0 |
Draft |
False |
 Lysander David |
Introduction
In order to consume soaplib webservices without requiring the distribution
of the python source, it is possible to convert the wsdl for the service
into python using ZSI (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywebsvcs
).
This also assumes that the service specified in
Making a SOAP Controller with Optio's Soaplib is running.
Install ZSI
Download the tar.gz file from sourceforge, extract and install ZSI
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cd ZSI-2.1-a1
python setup.py install
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Generate Python from WSDL
Create a working directory, create a directory for the generated files then
generate the python files for the service.
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3 | mkdir -p ~/explore/python/pylons/03_hello_soap_client/gen_lib
cd ~/explore/python/pylons/03_hello_soap_client/gen_lib
wsdl2py -b http://localhost:5000/soapy.wsdl
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After running these commands you should see these files
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HelloWorldService_server.py
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which have been generated from the wsdl file for the soap service.
Execute the SOAP service using the classes generated from the WSDL
Create a file named say_hello.py in the parent directory of the
gen_lib directory
say_hello.py
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sys.path.insert(0,'gen_lib')
from HelloWorldService_client import HelloWorldServiceLocator, say_hello
loc = HelloWorldServiceLocator()
svc = loc.getHelloWorldService()
req = say_hello()
req._name = 'frank'
req._times = 5
resp = svc.say_hello(req)._retval._string
print resp
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After executing the file, you should see something like this:
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['Hello, frank', 'Hello, frank', 'Hello, frank', 'Hello, frank', 'Hello, frank']
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