Thanks Dietz for your earlier replies that helped me avoid some dead ends. I'm still trying to get the basics to work with Python server-side web service. Since tgwebservices is not compatible with tg 2.0, I need to use either tg1.0 or a different technique.
It turns out that the approach I thought I could use of parsing the soap request via a generic mod_python function is not working. More accurately it reveals that I don't have sufficient understanding of what's really happening and really need some help. While I know python well, my soap experience is limited to clients and I built the entire XML request via strings and the %s operator. Now that I have to do the server, I cannot seem to get as far as receiving the soap xml and just parsing it -- perhaps not elegant but adequate. I know my client side test code is good because I use it with another vendor's web service. I've tried this code based on an existing mod_python implementation with Python 2.4 and Apache 2.2 The HTTP works, just to verify I don't have a really dumb error http://192.168.204.216/python/hrapi/RetrieveDataByXMLStream?a=3&b=abcd returns RetrieveDataByXMLStream method (()) {'a': '3', 'b': 'abcd'} As expected ------------server side code ------------------- The mod_python code is installed at /var/www/python/hrapi/index.py and is shown below (edited for brevity) def RetrieveDataByXMLStream(req, *args, **kwargs): req.content_type = 'text/plain' text = 'RetrieveDataByXMLStream method (%s) %s' % ( str(args), str(kwargs) ) return text ____________________________________________ I get the following error 'COMMERROR status=501, reason=Method Not Implemented' -----------------------Client side code------------------ class HTTPConnection(httplib.HTTPConnection): def xrequest(self, method, url, body=None, headers={}): print '===========================Exedute Request' print 'headers', headers print 'method', method print 'url', url print 'body', body response = self.request(method, url, body, headers) print 'response', response return response -------------------debug output on client side-------------- ===========================Exedute Request headers {'SOAPAction': 'http://www.ResourceSystem.com/EIS/RetrieveDataByXMLStream', 'Content-type': 'text/xml', 'Accept': 'text/xml'} method POST url /python/hrapi/test1 body <soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"; xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/";> <soap:Header> <EISAuthHeader xmlns="http://www.ResourceSystem.com/EIS/";> <AuthorizationCode>zzzzzz(editied for security)z</AuthorizationCode> </EISAuthHeader> </soap:Header> <soap:Body> <RetrieveDataByXMLStream xmlns="http://www.ResourceSystem.com/EIS/";> <IncomingXMLStream> <Parameter xmlns="urn:inputparameters-schema"> <ReportName>Compressed ADL Interface</ReportName> <FilterList> .... snipped for brevity .... </FilterList> </Parameter> </IncomingXMLStream> </RetrieveDataByXMLStream> </soap:Body> </soap:Envelope> I would appreciate any help you can provide. Thanks, Fred. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears?hl=en.
