[Tutor] Question regarding xml.dom.minidom: How do you send an unsignedByte in an wsdl request

[Emile van Sebille]

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Emile


On 7/22/2011 11:18 AM Garry Bettle said...
> Howdy all,
>
> Hope this message finds everyone well - roll on the weekend!
>
> I'm trying some calls to an wsdl API I've subscribed to.
>
> But I'm struggling to know what they want when sending an unsignedByte
> in a request.
>
> I'm using xml.dom.minidom so to start with I have:
> from xml.dom.minidom import Document, parseString
> import httplib, urlparse
>
> And later on I create a doc with:
> doc=Document()
>
> And I have a using a little helper to add a text element:
> def add_text_element(doc, parent, name, value):
>      element=doc.createElement(name)
>      element.appendChild(doc.createTextNode(str(value)))
>      parent.appendChild(element)
>
> Should I have a separate class for an unsignedByte? i.e. def
> add_byte_element
>
> What should it look like?
>
> This is what their API helpdesk have said:
>
> "In this instance, the PriceFormat is defined as an unsignedByte.
>
> /<xs:complexType name="GetOddsLadderRequest">/
>
> /<xs:attribute name="PriceFormat" type="xs:*unsignedByte*" /> /
>
> /</xs:complexType>/"
>
>
> Many thanks!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Garry
>
>
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