Generating WSDL for Python SOAP services

[Brad Clements]

I need WSDL server-side support for Python as well, for use with Zope and IE
5.5 client applications.

I'm open to just about any solution that can make this work.

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Brad Clements, DevNet Sysop 5
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"Preston Landers" <planders at journyx.com> wrote in message
news:9f8tri$2g1$1 at news.jump.net...
> Hi all.
>
> My company (journyx.com) is planning to use SOAP to expose some methods of
> our application server.  The goal is to write a client that will
ultimately
> be embedded in an MS Office application and make calls to installations of
> our software.
>
> We are using the actzero.com SOAP.py 0.9.5 module to implement the server
> side, and the MS SOAP 2.0 toolkit on the client side.  The MS toolkit
"high
> level API" requires that services have a WSDL (web services description
> language) file that describes the methods that are availible and their
> parameters. We are really hoping to use the "high level API" and thus
avoid
> writing our own handlers in Visual Basic, which is not our forte.  (Python
> is.)
>
> Therefore I am planning to write a WSDL generator that will examine our
> exposed methods and write out a valid WSDL file.  I realize you can
compose
> a WSDL file by hand, but since our interface is changing rapidly, we think
a
> generation program is the way to go.
>
> I am not sure yet it I can generalize it enough to be useful to the
general
> public or if it will be specific to our application.
>
> We already have a set of classes in a module that contain the methods
> exposed by SOAP.  Most of these methods are simple wrappers to the "real"
> internal API of our application. It should be easy enough to
> programmatically determine the methods.  The real trick seems to be
> determining the types of the parameters.  We are thinking of using the new
> function attributes in Python 2.1 give each method a descriptor that
defines
> its parameters.
>
> I'm posting to the newsgroup to check if anyone else is already working
> along these lines, or has any thoughts on the subject.
>
> cheers,
>
> Preston Landers
> Software Developer, Journyx Inc.
> planders at journyx.com
>
>




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