python soap web services

[Butternut squash]

Is there any reason why there isn't any python library that makes
using soap as easy as how microsoft .net makes it.

I mean I write rudimentary asmx files call them from a webbrowser.
The WSDL is generated and then there is documentation and a form to
invoke a function.

When do you think someone will make this available for python web service??

[Ravi Teja]

Re: python soap web services

> Is there any reason why there isn't any python library that makes[color=blue]
> using soap as easy as how microsoft .net makes it.[/color]

SOAP with Python is easy too in a different sort of way. I don't know
about the equivalent for autogenerating WSDL bit as in .NET.

#!/usr/bin/env python
def hello():
return "Hello, world"
import ZSI
ZSI.dispatch.As CGI()

And you have SOAP available on ANY web server.

More here.

http://pywebsvcs.sourceforge.net/zsi.html

http://diveintopython.org/soap_web_services/index.html

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> When do you think someone will make this available for python web service??[/color]
When? Will let you know soon as my crystal ball gets delivered :-)
Seriously, whenever someone gets that itch to scratch since that's how
things get done in OSS usually.

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Re: python soap web services

Butternut squash wrote:
[color=blue]
> Is there any reason why there isn't any python library that makes
> using soap as easy as how microsoft .net makes it.
>
> I mean I write rudimentary asmx files call them from a webbrowser.
> The WSDL is generated and then there is documentation and a form to
> invoke a function.[/color]

The WSDL will never as easily be created as in .NET/JAVA, as Python lacks
static typing annotations that are used by the WSDL-generators. So either
someone defines his own type annotation theme for that purpose that can be
used to infer the WSDL - or you write WSDL yourself. Which is a major
PITA, as the whole SOAP mess.

Ravi OTH has pointed out _running_ a SOAP service is easy as cake.

Diez

[Butternut squash]

Re: python soap web services

Diez B. Roggisch wrote:
[color=blue]
> Butternut squash wrote:
>[color=green]
>> Is there any reason why there isn't any python library that makes
>> using soap as easy as how microsoft .net makes it.
>>
>> I mean I write rudimentary asmx files call them from a webbrowser.
>> The WSDL is generated and then there is documentation and a form to
>> invoke a function.[/color]
>
> The WSDL will never as easily be created as in .NET/JAVA, as Python lacks
> static typing annotations that are used by the WSDL-generators. So either
> someone defines his own type annotation theme for that purpose that can be
> used to infer the WSDL - or you write WSDL yourself. Which is a major
> PITA, as the whole SOAP mess.
>
> Ravi OTH has pointed out _running_ a SOAP service is easy as cake.
>[/color]

I agree python soap is pretty easy to use. Just a bit harder to use the c#
classic way to call a web service.