[Soap-Python] Can't get my request to work in pysimplesoap SoapClient

[Tim Callaghan]

That worked perfectly, thanks so much for your help.

On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Mariano Reingart <reingart at gmail.com>
wrote:

> You can try the following:
>
> XML = """
> <v2:GetOrders xmlns:v2="%s">
>   <v2:request>
>     <v2:BusinessDate>2015-04-24T00:00:00</v2:BusinessDate>
>   </v2:request>
> </v2:GetOrders>
> """ % namespaceValue
> bd = SimpleXMLElement(XML)
>
> response = client.call("GetOrders", bd)
>
> Best regards,
>
> Mariano Reingart
> http://www.sistemasagiles.com.ar
> http://reingart.blogspot.com
>
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 10:42 AM, Tim Callaghan <tmcallaghan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Ultimately, this is the Envelope I need to generate for my first
>> integration. From there I'll be doing substantially more complicated ones
>> (payload wise) with respect to the amount of XML I need to generate inside
>> the Body.
>>
>> It's probably just a few well constructed lines of code, I can't figure
>> them out.
>>
>> <soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="
>> http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:v2="
>> http://www.no-web-site.com/webservices/sales/v2" xmlns:sys="
>> http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/System">
>>    <soapenv:Header/>
>>    <soapenv:Body>
>>       <v2:GetOrders>
>>          <v2:request xmlns:v2="
>> http://www.no-web-site.com/webservices/sales/v2">
>>             <v2:BusinessDate>2015-04-24T00:00:00</v2:BusinessDate>
>>          </v2:request>
>>       </v2:GetOrders>
>>    </soapenv:Body>
>> </soapenv:Envelope>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 8:21 AM, Tim Callaghan <tmcallaghan at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I guess my question is really about how I do anything interesting with
>>> the call method. At the moment it doesn't seem obvious how I create any
>>> non-trivial XML to pass into it, other than simple key/value pairs. I'm
>>> calling an API where I need to pass complex XML with nested structures.
>>>
>>> If you can point me to an example I'd really appreciate it.
>>>
>>> -Tim
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 7:50 AM, Tim Callaghan <tmcallaghan at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've already defined the v2 ns and namespace in my SoapClient()
>>>> initialization, why would I want/need to define it again?
>>>>
>>>> client =
>>>> SoapClient(location=soapLocation,action=soapAction,namespace=namespaceValue,ns=nsValue,trace=True,http_headers=httpHeaders)
>>>>
>>>> GetOrders gets the v2 ns applied to it automatically, is there a way to
>>>> have that happen to all elements in SimpleXMLElement automatically?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> -Tim
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 10:13 PM, Mariano Reingart <reingart at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> You'll need to specify the namespace URI so the python parser can
>>>>> detect it (in the same node or in the xml root):
>>>>>
>>>>> bd = SimpleXMLElement("""<v2:BusinessDate
>>>>> xmlns:v2="%s">2015-04-24T00:00:00</v2:BusinessDate>""" % namespaceValue,
>>>>>                       )
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards
>>>>>
>>>>> Mariano Reingart
>>>>> http://www.sistemasagiles.com.ar
>>>>> http://reingart.blogspot.com
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 9:48 PM, Tim Callaghan <tmcallaghan at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> That worked, so now I'm close.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> However, I need a little more for this,
>>>>>> "<v2:request><v2:BusinessDate>2015-04-24T00:00:00</v2:BusinessDate></v2:request>".
>>>>>> I can easily add the "request" tags, but if I ask for a "v2:" prefix it
>>>>>> gives me parsing errors.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I got the syntax from here,
>>>>>> https://code.google.com/p/pysimplesoap/wiki/SoapClient#Basic_example_not_using_WSDL
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 6:22 PM, Mariano Reingart <reingart at gmail.com
>>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 6:22 PM, Tim Callaghan <
>>>>>>> tmcallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Here's my code. When I "print bd.as_xml()" it looks good to me, but
>>>>>>>> all that ends up in my <v2:response> is 2015-04-24T00:00:00, not
>>>>>>>> <BusinessDate>
>>>>>>>> 2015-04-24T00:00:00</BusinessDate>. Help.  -Tim
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> -------- BEGIN CODE --------------
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> from pysimplesoap.client import SoapClient
>>>>>>>> from pysimplesoap.simplexml import SimpleXMLElement
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> soapLocation="https://www.changed-for-example.com/Sales2.svc
>>>>>>>> <https://api5.brinkpos.net/Sales2.svc>"
>>>>>>>> soapAction="
>>>>>>>> http://www.changed-for-example.com/webservices/sales/v2/ISalesWebService2/
>>>>>>>> <http://www.brinksoftware.com/webservices/sales/v2/ISalesWebService2/>
>>>>>>>> "
>>>>>>>> nsValue="v2"
>>>>>>>> namespaceValue="
>>>>>>>> http://www.changed-for-example.com/webservices/sales/v2
>>>>>>>> <http://www.brinksoftware.com/webservices/sales/v2>"
>>>>>>>> httpHeaders = {'AccessToken':'**NOT*THE*REAL*TOKEN',
>>>>>>>> 'LocationToken':'**NOT*THE*REAL*TOKEN'}
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> client =
>>>>>>>> SoapClient(location=soapLocation,action=soapAction,namespace=namespaceValue,ns=nsValue,trace=True,http_headers=httpHeaders)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> bd =
>>>>>>>> SimpleXMLElement("<BusinessDate>2015-04-24T00:00:00</BusinessDate>")
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> response = client.GetOrders(request=bd)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Can you test the following code instead calling client.getOrders
>>>>>>> directly?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> response = client.call("GetOrders", bd)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> That will detect bd as a raw simple xml object to be serialized.
>>>>>>> That generates the following output (with BusinessDate included):
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> INFO:pysimplesoap.client:POST
>>>>>>> https://www.changed-for-example.com/Sales2.svc
>>>>>>> DEBUG:pysimplesoap.client:SOAPAction: "
>>>>>>> http://www.changed-for-example.com/webservices/sales/v2/ISalesWebService2/GetOrders
>>>>>>> "
>>>>>>> Content-length: 296
>>>>>>> Content-type: text/xml; charset="UTF-8"
>>>>>>> AccessToken: **NOT*THE*REAL*TOKEN
>>>>>>> LocationToken: **NOT*THE*REAL*TOKEN
>>>>>>> DEBUG:pysimplesoap.client:<?xml version="1.0"
>>>>>>> encoding="UTF-8"?><soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="
>>>>>>> http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:v2="
>>>>>>> http://www.changed-for-example.com/webservices/sales/v2">
>>>>>>> <soapenv:Header/>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> <soapenv:Body><BusinessDate>2015-04-24T00:00:00</BusinessDate></soapenv:Body></soapenv:Envelope>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> BTW, from where did you get the response=raw syntax?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Mariano Reingart
>>>>>>> http://www.sistemasagiles.com.ar
>>>>>>> http://reingart.blogspot.com
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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