On May 14, 12:59 pm, Waldemar Osuch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 13, 1:02 pm, Jennifer Duerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > All, > > > I need help concerning SOAP, Python and XML. I am very new to this, so > > dumbing it down for me will not offend me! > > > I'm using Python and want to send a user-inputted string to an > > existing Java web app that > > will output results to XML. I need to capture elements of the XML and > > put > > the info into a table. (say I send a single/simple address string to > > this > > webservice/geocode, which then returns numerous possible matches with > > XY > > values and score values, and I want to capture that into a table) > > > How do I go about doing this? I'm told I need to use SOAP. I > > discovered that > > the best module to use is ZSI (please correct me if I'm wrong). I have > > installed the necessary module. Examples I have seen are plenty and > > all so different, its not clear to me how to go about. I have been > > spinning my wheels for too long on this! > > > Can someone provide some example code similar to what I need to do? Or > > any > > guidance would be appreciated. > > > Thanks! > > It looks like you have three tasks here: > - get data > - parse it > - store it > > SOAP could be the means to accomplish only the first one. > > If the service you use exposes the functionality using XML-RPC or some > REST-ful methods I would try them first. If it does not, then > you are stuck with SOAP. Using SOAP in Python is currently > not as straightforward as it could be. > > You have chosen to use ZSI and that is fine choice. > In documentation look for "wsdl2py". > Given a URL to a WSDL file it will generate stub class definition > with methods corresponding to the SOAP service methods. > In your code you would instantiate the class, call the method you want > and grab the payload. Your first task is done. > > From what I understand the payload will be XML that will need to be > parsed. For that you could use the excellent ElementTree > > If I were you I would investigate suds (https://fedorahosted.org/suds) > It promises to be easier to use than ZSI. The README has the usage > example. > > Waldemar- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -
Thanks for your reply. I got some help from a fellow co-worker. We worked out this, so far. Seems to be working... [[my url is local, so use another, and also then choose an appropriate value for the user_input var]] import urllib, urllib2 from xml.dom import minidom user_input = 'xyz' url = 'http://xxx.....' #geocoding servlet url values = {'address': user_input} # data = urllib.urlencode(values) req = urllib2.Request(url, data) response = urllib2.urlopen(req) xmlResults = response.read() #print xmlResults xmldoc = minidom.parseString(xmlResults) places = xmldoc.getElementsByTagName('Placemark') nameTag = places[0].getElementsByTagName('name') print nameTag[0].firstChild.wholeText descriptionTag = places[0].getElementsByTagName('description') print descriptionTag[0].firstChild.wholeText coordinatesTag = places[0].getElementsByTagName('coordinates') print coordinatesTag[0].firstChild.wholeText -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
