I have a problem with soappy when i try to send a python dictionary... i send something like this {'1':2,'3':4} and it returns something like this {'1':[2,4], '3':4} function on the server is simply an echo:
def echo(arg): return arg i post the soap message, it may be useful... *** Incoming HTTP headers ********************************************** POST / HTTP/1.0 Host: localhost:8081 User-agent: SOAPpy 0.11.6 (pywebsvcs.sf.net) Content-type: text/xml; charset="UTF-8" Content-length: 552 SOAPAction: "http://localhost:8081/a" ************************************************************************ *** Incoming SOAP ****************************************************** <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <SOAP-ENV:Envelope SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encod ing/" xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:xsi="http ://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.or g/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema"> <SOAP-ENV:Body> <a SOAP-ENC:root="1"> <v1> <_x005F_x0031_ xsi:type="xsd:string">2</_x005F_x0031_> <c xsi:type="xsd:string">6</c> <b xsi:type="xsd:string">4</b> </v1> </a> </SOAP-ENV:Body> </SOAP-ENV:Envelope> ************************************************************************ In build. In dump. obj= {'Result': <SOAPpy.Types.structType v1 at 12802528>: {'c': '6', 'b ': '4', '_x0031_': '2'}} In dump_dictionary. In dump. obj= <SOAPpy.Types.structType v1 at 12802528>: {'c': '6', 'b': '4', '_x 0031_': '2'} In dump_instance. obj= <SOAPpy.Types.structType v1 at 12802528>: {'c': '6', 'b': '4', '_x0031_': '2'} tag= Result In dump. obj= ['2', '6', '4'] In dump_list. obj= ['2', '6', '4'] In dump. obj= 2 In dump_string. In dumper. In dump. obj= 6 In dump_string. In dumper. In dump. obj= 4 In dump_string. In dumper. In dump. obj= 6 In dump_string. In build. In dump. obj= {'Result': <SOAPpy.Types.structType v1 at 12802528>: {'c': '6', 'b ': '4', '_x0031_': '2'}} In dump_dictionary. In dump. obj= <SOAPpy.Types.structType v1 at 12802528>: {'c': '6', 'b': '4', '_x 0031_': '2'} In dump_instance. obj= <SOAPpy.Types.structType v1 at 12802528>: {'c': '6', 'b': '4', '_x0031_': '2'} tag= Result In dump. obj= <SOAPpy.Types.structType v1 at 12802528>: {'c': '6', 'b': '4', '_x 0031_': '2'} In dump_instance. obj= <SOAPpy.Types.structType v1 at 12802528>: {'c': '6', 'b': '4', '_x0031_': '2'} tag= Result In dump. obj= ['2', '6', '4'] In dump_list. obj= ['2', '6', '4'] In dump. obj= 6 In dump_string. In dump. obj= 4 In dump_string. In dump. obj= ['2', '6', '4'] In dump_list. obj= ['2', '6', '4'] In dump. obj= 2 In dump_string. In dump. obj= 6 In dump_string. In dump. obj= 4 In dump_string. In dump. obj= 6 In dump_string. In dumper. In dump. obj= 4 In dump_string. In dumper. In dump. obj= 2 In dump_string. In dumper. *** Outgoing HTTP headers ********************************************** HTTP/1.0 200 OK Server: <a href="http://pywebsvcs.sf.net">SOAPpy 0.11.6</a> (Python 2.3.3) Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 14:56:03 GMT Content-type: text/xml; charset="UTF-8" Content-length: 960 ************************************************************************ *** Outgoing SOAP ****************************************************** <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <SOAP-ENV:Envelope SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encod ing/" xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:xsi="http ://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.or g/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema"> <SOAP-ENV:Body> <aResponse id="i1" SOAP-ENC:root="1"> <Result href="#i2"/> </aResponse> <xsd:Result id="i2" SOAP-ENC:root="0"> <_x005F_x0031_ href="#i3"/> <c href="#i4"/> <b href="#i5"/> </xsd:Result> <_x005F_x005F_x005F_x0031_ SOAP-ENC:arrayType="xsd:string[3]" xsi:type="SOAP-ENC :Array" SOAP-ENC:root="0" id="i3"> <item href="#i6"/> <item href="#i4"/> <item href="#i5"/> </_x005F_x005F_x005F_x0031_> <c xsi:type="xsd:string" id="i4" SOAP-ENC:root="0">6</c> <b xsi:type="xsd:string" id="i5" SOAP-ENC:root="0">4</b> <item xsi:type="xsd:string" id="i6" SOAP-ENC:root="0">2</item> </SOAP-ENV:Body> </SOAP-ENV:Envelope> ************************************************************************ thanks for your help -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list