Benefits of twisted-suds - Async way of using python suds soap lib

Question

I\'m using python suds library to make a SOAP client based on a local wsdl file. My goal is to use Twisted as the backend so I query the SOAP servers in a asyncronous way.

Answer 1

I'm using suds in my projects. I didn't have to do any patches, or use twisted-suds. I'm using the 0.4.1-2 version of python-suds package (on ubuntu) and it comes with very usefull nosend option.

    # This parses the wsdl file. The autoblend option you'd probably skip, 
    # its needed when name spaces are not strictly preserved (case for Echo Sign).
    from suds import client
    self._suds = client.Client('file://' + config.wsdl_path, nosend=True,
                               autoblend=True)

    ....

    # Create a context for the call, example sendDocument() call. This doesn't yet
    # send anything, only creates an object with the request and capable of parsing
    # the response
    context = self._suds.service.sendDocument(apiKey=....)

    # Actually send the request. Use any web client you want. I actually use 
    # something more sophisticated, but below I put the example using 
    # standard twisted web client.
    from twisted.web import client
    d = client.getPage(url=context.client.location(), 
                       postdata=str(context.envelope),
                       method='POST',
                       headers=context.client.headers())

    # The callback() of the above Deferred is fired with the body of the 
    # http response. I parse it using the context object.          
    d.addCallback(context.succeeded)

    # Now in the callback you have the actual python object defined in 
    # your WSDL file. You can print...
    from pprint import pprint
    d.addCallback(pprint)
    # I the response is a failure, your Deferred would be errbacked with 
    # the suds.WebFault exception.