Hi everyone, Two years ago, I've dropped SUDS to generate and parse the XML by hand, using xml.dom.minidom. I don't remember why exactly. I hope this comment is useful for you. (?!)
:) Alex 2010/4/19 jathan. <jat...@gmail.com>: > Hello- > I have a project that is based on Twisted used to > communicate with network devices and I am adding support for a new > vendor (Citrix NetScaler) whose API is SOAP. Unfortunately the > support for SOAP in Twisted still relies on SOAPpy, which is badly out > of date. In fact as of this email (I just checked), twisted.web.soap > itself hasn't even been updated in 21 months! > I would like to ask if anyone has any experience they would be willing > to share with utilizing Twisted's superb asynchronous transport > functionality with SUDS. It seems like plugging in a custom Twisted > transport would be a natural fit in SUDS' Client.options.transport, I'm just > having > a hard time wrapping my head around it. > I did come up with a way to call the SOAP method with SUDS > asynchronously by utilizing twisted.internet.threads.deferToThread(), > but this feels like a hack to me. > Here is an example of what I've done, just to give you an idea: > # netscaler is a module I wrote using suds to interface with NetScaler > SOAP > # Source: http://bitbucket.org/jathanism/netscaler-api/src > import netscaler > import os, sys > from twisted.internet import reactor, defer, threads > # netscaler.API is the class that sets up the suds.client.Client object > host = 'netscaler.local' > username = password = 'nsroot' > wsdl_url = 'file://' + os.path.join(os.getcwd(), 'NSUserAdmin.wsdl') > api = netscaler.API(host, username=username, password=password, > wsdl_url=wsdl_url) > results = [] > errors = [] > def handleResult(result): > print '\tgot result: %s' % (result,) > results.append(result) > def handleError(err): > sys.stderr.write('\tgot failure: %s' % (err,)) > errors.append(err) > # this converts the api.login() call to a Twisted thread. > # api.login() is equivalent to: > # api.service.login(username=self.username, password=self.password) > deferred = threads.deferToThread(api.login) > deferred.addCallbacks(handleResult, handleError) > reactor.run() > This works as expected and defers return of the api.login() call until > it is complete, instead of blocking. But as I said, it doesn't feel > right. > Thanks in advance for any help, guidance, feedback, criticism, > insults, or total solutions. > jathan. > _______________________________________________ > Twisted-Python mailing list > Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com > http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python > > -- Alexandre Quessy http://alexandre.quessy.net/ _______________________________________________ Twisted-Python mailing list Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python
