Re: Suitable software stacks for simple python web service
On Thursday, November 22, 2012 1:42:42 AM UTC-5, Kev Dwyer wrote: Steve Petrie wrote: On Wednesday, November 21, 2012 2:32:40 AM UTC-5, Kev Dwyer wrote: Hello List, I have to build a simple web service which will: - receive queries from our other servers - forward the requests to a third party SOAP service - process the response from the third party - send the result back to the original requester From the point of view of the requester, this will happen within the scope of a single request. The data exchanged with the original requester will likely be encoded as JSON; the SOAP service will be handled by SUDS. The load is likely to be quite light, say a few requests per hour, though this may increase in the future. Given these requirements, what do you think might be a suitable software stack, i.e. webserver and web framework (if a web framework is even necessary)? Candidates should be compatible with Python2.7, though I'd be happy to consider Python 3 if anyone knows of a Python3 SOAP library that has good WSDL support. Cheers, Kev I'm using the Bottle web framework (http://bottlepy.org) to integrate requests and replies originating in a Drupal site, a Beanstream (payment processor) account, and a Salesforce instance. Communication with Salesforce is done through the Salesforce Python Toolkit (http://code.google.com/p/salesforce-python-toolkit/), which uses Suds. Communication with the Drupal site uses Python's (and PHP's on the Drupal side) native JSON support. This is under Python 2.6.8 and Apache 2.2.23 running on an AWS EC2 instance. No (major) problems so far, though still in the early stages of this project. Steve I chose Bottle after trying a few other frameworks because, well, I can't remember exactly why, though thinking back it's probably because of the clarity of Bottle's approach and the simplicity of the documentation. Hello Steve, Thanks for your comment. I'm curious, did you consider any web servers other than Apache? Kev You're telling me that there are other web servers? ;) I didn't try any others seriously, no. My experience is with Apache and IIS, and I try to stay away from Windows. I should mention, given Dieter Maurer's comment, that Bottle is a (fairly thin) layer built over WSGI. I've built applications directly over WSGI as well; that's another way to go, it's quite straightforward. mod_python is no longer supported: http://blog.dscpl.com.au/2010/05/modpython-project-soon-to-be-officially.html. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Suitable software stacks for simple python web service
Steve Petrie wrote: On Thursday, November 22, 2012 1:42:42 AM UTC-5, Kev Dwyer wrote: Steve Petrie wrote: On Wednesday, November 21, 2012 2:32:40 AM UTC-5, Kev Dwyer wrote: Hello List, I have to build a simple web service which will: - receive queries from our other servers - forward the requests to a third party SOAP service - process the response from the third party - send the result back to the original requester From the point of view of the requester, this will happen within the scope of a single request. The data exchanged with the original requester will likely be encoded as JSON; the SOAP service will be handled by SUDS. The load is likely to be quite light, say a few requests per hour, though this may increase in the future. Given these requirements, what do you think might be a suitable software stack, i.e. webserver and web framework (if a web framework is even necessary)? Candidates should be compatible with Python2.7, though I'd be happy to consider Python 3 if anyone knows of a Python3 SOAP library that has good WSDL support. Cheers, Kev I'm using the Bottle web framework (http://bottlepy.org) to integrate requests and replies originating in a Drupal site, a Beanstream (payment processor) account, and a Salesforce instance. Communication with Salesforce is done through the Salesforce Python Toolkit (http://code.google.com/p/salesforce-python-toolkit/), which uses Suds. Communication with the Drupal site uses Python's (and PHP's on the Drupal side) native JSON support. This is under Python 2.6.8 and Apache 2.2.23 running on an AWS EC2 instance. No (major) problems so far, though still in the early stages of this project. Steve I chose Bottle after trying a few other frameworks because, well, I can't remember exactly why, though thinking back it's probably because of the clarity of Bottle's approach and the simplicity of the documentation. Hello Steve, Thanks for your comment. I'm curious, did you consider any web servers other than Apache? Kev You're telling me that there are other web servers? ;) I didn't try any others seriously, no. My experience is with Apache and IIS, and I try to stay away from Windows. I should mention, given Dieter Maurer's comment, that Bottle is a (fairly thin) layer built over WSGI. I've built applications directly over WSGI as well; that's another way to go, it's quite straightforward. mod_python is no longer supported: http://blog.dscpl.com.au/2010/05/modpython-project-soon-to-be- officially.html. Based on Dieter's comment I'm using Bottle as a framework, with gunicorn (behind nginx) as the webserver. Even Bottle is probably overkill for my use case, but my time is rather limited, so I'm happy to use an off the shelf solution. And I must say, configuring gunicorn and nginx contrasted pleasantly with my memories of struggling with httpd.conf :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Suitable software stacks for simple python web service
Dieter Maurer wrote: snip From your description (so far), you would not need a web framework but could use any way to integrate Python scripts into a web server, e.g. mod_python, cgi, WSGI, Check what ways your web server will suport. Hello Dieter Thanks for your comment. I certainly want a lightweight solution so CGI or one of the micro-frameworks are what I am considering. Cheers Kev -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Suitable software stacks for simple python web service
On Wednesday, November 21, 2012 2:32:40 AM UTC-5, Kev Dwyer wrote: Hello List, I have to build a simple web service which will: - receive queries from our other servers - forward the requests to a third party SOAP service - process the response from the third party - send the result back to the original requester From the point of view of the requester, this will happen within the scope of a single request. The data exchanged with the original requester will likely be encoded as JSON; the SOAP service will be handled by SUDS. The load is likely to be quite light, say a few requests per hour, though this may increase in the future. Given these requirements, what do you think might be a suitable software stack, i.e. webserver and web framework (if a web framework is even necessary)? Candidates should be compatible with Python2.7, though I'd be happy to consider Python 3 if anyone knows of a Python3 SOAP library that has good WSDL support. Cheers, Kev I'm using the Bottle web framework (http://bottlepy.org) to integrate requests and replies originating in a Drupal site, a Beanstream (payment processor) account, and a Salesforce instance. Communication with Salesforce is done through the Salesforce Python Toolkit (http://code.google.com/p/salesforce-python-toolkit/), which uses Suds. Communication with the Drupal site uses Python's (and PHP's on the Drupal side) native JSON support. This is under Python 2.6.8 and Apache 2.2.23 running on an AWS EC2 instance. No (major) problems so far, though still in the early stages of this project. Steve I chose Bottle after trying a few other frameworks because, well, I can't remember exactly why, though thinking back it's probably because of the clarity of Bottle's approach and the simplicity of the documentation. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Suitable software stacks for simple python web service
Kev Dwyer kevin.p.dw...@gmail.com writes: I have to build a simple web service which will: - receive queries from our other servers - forward the requests to a third party SOAP service - process the response from the third party - send the result back to the original requester From the point of view of the requester, this will happen within the scope of a single request. The data exchanged with the original requester will likely be encoded as JSON; the SOAP service will be handled by SUDS. The load is likely to be quite light, say a few requests per hour, though this may increase in the future. Given these requirements, what do you think might be a suitable software stack, i.e. webserver and web framework (if a web framework is even necessary)? From your description (so far), you would not need a web framework but could use any way to integrate Python scripts into a web server, e.g. mod_python, cgi, WSGI, Check what ways your web server will suport. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Suitable software stacks for simple python web service
Steve Petrie wrote: On Wednesday, November 21, 2012 2:32:40 AM UTC-5, Kev Dwyer wrote: Hello List, I have to build a simple web service which will: - receive queries from our other servers - forward the requests to a third party SOAP service - process the response from the third party - send the result back to the original requester From the point of view of the requester, this will happen within the scope of a single request. The data exchanged with the original requester will likely be encoded as JSON; the SOAP service will be handled by SUDS. The load is likely to be quite light, say a few requests per hour, though this may increase in the future. Given these requirements, what do you think might be a suitable software stack, i.e. webserver and web framework (if a web framework is even necessary)? Candidates should be compatible with Python2.7, though I'd be happy to consider Python 3 if anyone knows of a Python3 SOAP library that has good WSDL support. Cheers, Kev I'm using the Bottle web framework (http://bottlepy.org) to integrate requests and replies originating in a Drupal site, a Beanstream (payment processor) account, and a Salesforce instance. Communication with Salesforce is done through the Salesforce Python Toolkit (http://code.google.com/p/salesforce-python-toolkit/), which uses Suds. Communication with the Drupal site uses Python's (and PHP's on the Drupal side) native JSON support. This is under Python 2.6.8 and Apache 2.2.23 running on an AWS EC2 instance. No (major) problems so far, though still in the early stages of this project. Steve I chose Bottle after trying a few other frameworks because, well, I can't remember exactly why, though thinking back it's probably because of the clarity of Bottle's approach and the simplicity of the documentation. Hello Steve, Thanks for your comment. I'm curious, did you consider any web servers other than Apache? Kev -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Suitable software stacks for simple python web service
Hello List, I have to build a simple web service which will: - receive queries from our other servers - forward the requests to a third party SOAP service - process the response from the third party - send the result back to the original requester From the point of view of the requester, this will happen within the scope of a single request. The data exchanged with the original requester will likely be encoded as JSON; the SOAP service will be handled by SUDS. The load is likely to be quite light, say a few requests per hour, though this may increase in the future. Given these requirements, what do you think might be a suitable software stack, i.e. webserver and web framework (if a web framework is even necessary)? Candidates should be compatible with Python2.7, though I'd be happy to consider Python 3 if anyone knows of a Python3 SOAP library that has good WSDL support. Cheers, Kev -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
