I'm messing with SOAP, trying to write a small library to handle stuff I buy from Aramex (shipper). I'm learning XML/SOAP and I'm familiar with RPC from C (Stevens) but no other relevant experience. If this is incredibly dumb just ignore it since I'll probably figure it out eventually.
I'm trying to get a list of countries by calling the CoutriesFetchingRequest method - this is documented here: http://www.aramex.com/developers/aramex-apis/47442/Location-Services-API http://www.aramex.com/content/uploads/109/232/46790/aramex-location-api-manual.pdf It takes as its arguments a 'ClientInfo' data-structure and 'Code' which is a string. There is also a 'FetchCountries' method with an 'input' and 'output' something. However python was more clear, print server.show_methods(): Method Name: FetchCountries In #0: parameters ((u'http://ws.aramex.net/ShippingAPI/v1/', u'CountriesFetchingRequest')) <SNIP> The trouble is I don't understand how to call 'CoutriesFetchingRequest' or pass it to FetchCountries. Could someone clarify? The WSDL for Aramex has this: http://www.aramex.com/content/uploads/109/232/46790/location-api-wsdl.zip <wsdl:operation name="FetchCountries"> <wsdl:input wsaw:Action="http://ws.aramex.net/ShippingAPI/v1/Service_1_0/FetchCountries"; name="CountriesFetchingRequest" message="tns:CountriesFetchingRequest" /> <wsdl:output wsaw:Action="http://ws.aramex.net/ShippingAPI/v1/Service_1_0/FetchCountriesResponse"; name="CountriesFetchingResponse" message="tns:CountriesFetchingResponse" /> </wsdl:operation> <wsdl:input name="CountriesFetchingRequest"> <soap:body use="literal" /> </wsdl:input> My python code: #!/usr/bin/python import xml, fpconst, logging from SOAPpy import WSDL from suds.client import Client logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO) logging.getLogger('suds.client').setLevel(logging.DEBUG) foo = { 'AccountCountryCode' : 'JO', 'AccountEntity' : 'AMM', 'AccountNumber' : '20016', 'AccountPin' : '331421', 'UserName' : 'testing...@aramex.com', 'Password' : 'R123456789$r', 'Version' : 'v1.0', 'Source' : '', 'Transaction' : { 'Reference1' : '001', 'Reference2' : '002', 'Reference3' : '003', 'Reference4' : '004', 'Reference5' : '005' } } wsdl_file = '/home/veek/location-api-wsdl/Location-API-WSDL.wsdl' server = WSDL.Proxy(wsdl_file) print server.methods.keys() print dir(server) print server.show_methods() callInfo = server.methods['FetchCountries'] print type(callInfo) print dir(callInfo) for arg in callInfo.inparams: print arg.name.ljust(15), arg.type server.namespace = 'http://ws.aramex.net/ShippingAPI/v1/' x = server.FetchCountries.CountriesFetchingRequest(foo) The output i get is: [u'FetchCountries', u'FetchCountry', u'ValidateAddress', u'FetchCities', u'FetchOffices'] ['__doc__', '__getattr__', '__init__', '__module__', '__str__', 'methods', 'show_methods', 'soapproxy', 'wsdl'] Method Name: FetchCountries In #0: parameters ((u'http://ws.aramex.net/ShippingAPI/v1/', u'CountriesFetchingRequest')) Out #0: parameters ((u'http://ws.aramex.net/ShippingAPI/v1/', u'CountriesFetchingResponse')) <SNIP> None <type 'instance'> ['__doc__', '__init__', '__module__', 'addInHeaderInfo', 'addInParameter', 'addOutHeaderInfo', 'addOutParameter', 'documentation', 'encodingStyle', 'getInHeaders', 'getInParameters', 'getOutHeaders', 'getOutParameters', 'getReturnParameter', 'inheaders', 'inparams', 'location', 'methodName', 'namespace', 'outheaders', 'outparams', 'retval', 'setReturnParameter', 'soapAction', 'style', 'transport', 'use'] parameters (u'http://ws.aramex.net/ShippingAPI/v1/', u'CountriesFetchingRequest') <SNIP> SOAPpy.Types.faultType: <Fault a:InternalServiceFault: Error in deserializing body of request message for operation 'FetchCountries'. OperationFormatter encountered an invalid Message body. Expected to find node type 'Element' with name 'CountriesFetchingRequest' and namespace 'http://ws.aramex.net/ShippingAPI/v1/'. Found node type 'Element' with name 'FetchCountries.CountriesFetchingRequest' and namespace '': <SNIP> -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
