John Gordon schrieb:
I'm developing a program that will use web services, which I have never
used before.
There are several tutorials out there that advise you to get the WSDL
and then call a method (such as wsdl2py) that inspects the wsdl and
automagically generates the python classes and methods you need for
interacting with that web service.
I've tried this, and have run into a number of roadblocks that have left
me frustrated.
Welcome to the wonderful world of SOAP. If you didn't know - the S
stands for simple [1].
I don't want to go into a rant about the why and how SOAP sucks, and why
it's support in Python is lacking - to say the least.
What we did in a similar situation was this:
- got hold of a client that was able to speak with the server. In your
case, a .NET-client shouldn't be hard to get working.
- monitor the traffic that went on between the client and server using
some HTTP-proxy or WireShark.
- mimicked the server-side protocol by dynamising the sniffed traffic
through an XML-templating tool, genshi in our case.
Sounds archaic, and complicated? Yes. Blame SOAP (and Microsoft, it's
biggest proponent)
Diez
[1] http://72.249.21.88/nonintersecting/2006/11/15/the-s-stands-for-simple/
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