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i'm testing out SUDS library and I'm trying to make a simple request to an endpoint but i get unusual output. Why?
from suds.client import Client
import logging
logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)
logging.getLogger('suds.xsd.schema').setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
url = "http://xmlgw.companieshouse.gov.uk/v1-0/xmlgw/Gateway"
client = Client(url)
print client
Output:
Martynass-MacBook-Air:CH martynas$ python ch.py
DEBUG:suds.xsd.schema:loaded:
schema collection
Schema:0x109a7db90
(raw)
<schema/>
(model)
DEBUG:suds.xsd.schema:MERGED:
Schema:0x109a7db90
(raw)
<schema/>
(model)
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To make SOAP requests to the SOAP API endpoint, use the "Content-Type: application/soap+xml" request header, which tells the server that the request body contains a SOAP envelope. The server informs the client that it has returned a SOAP envelope with a "Content-Type: application/soap+xml" response header.
Suds is a SOAP module for Python, which allows Python to consume wsdl files. Setuptools that you installed in the previous step includes an Easy Install program that you can use to install the correct version of suds. Download the suds egg from https://pypi.python.org/pypi/suds.
Python Web Services and Zolera Soap Infrastructure ((ZSI on PyPi) provides both client and server SOAP libraries.
You can't use suds for this servce, suds is based on SOAP, which is another web service protocol. What you can do is send an xml request and get a response.
import requests
target_url = "http://xmlgw.companieshouse.gov.uk/v1-0/xmlgw/Gateway"
headers={'Content-type': 'text/xml'}
print requests.post(target_url, data=xml, headers=headers).text
Where the xml is defined according to their schemes. http://xmlgw.companieshouse.gov.uk/example_http.html This is one examaple
xml = ('''
<GovTalkMessage xmlns="http://www.govtalk.gov.uk/schemas/govtalk/govtalkheader"
xmlns:dsig="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#"
xmlns:gt="http://www.govtalk.gov.uk/schemas/govtalk/core"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.govtalk.gov.uk/schemas/govtalk/govtalkheader">
<EnvelopeVersion>1.0</EnvelopeVersion>
<Header>
<MessageDetails>
<Class>CompanyDetails</Class>
<Qualifier>request</Qualifier>
<TransactionID>14456553</TransactionID>
</MessageDetails>
<SenderDetails>
<IDAuthentication>
<SenderID>My_SenderID</SenderID>
<Authentication>
<Method>CHMD5</Method>
<Value>e999e113407884fa410fa2f53bc23952</Value>
</Authentication>
</IDAuthentication>
<EmailAddress>[email protected]</EmailAddress>
</SenderDetails>
</Header>
<GovTalkDetails>
<Keys/>
</GovTalkDetails>
<Body>
<CompanyDetailsRequest xmlns="http://xmlgw.companieshouse.gov.uk/v1-0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlgw.companieshouse.gov.uk/v1-0/schema/CoDets.xsd">
<CompanyNumber>01002361</CompanyNumber>
<GiveMortTotals>1</GiveMortTotals>
</CompanyDetailsRequest>
</Body>
</GovTalkMessage>
''')
<Class>CompanyDetails</Class> What type of info you're getting. kinda what "function" to call
<Authentication>
Here you would put the login info i guess
<Method>CHMD5</Method>
<Value>e999e113407884fa410fa2f53bc23952</Value>
</Authentication>
</IDAuthentication>
<CompanyDetailsRequest xmlns="http://xmlgw.companieshouse.gov.uk/v1-0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlgw.companieshouse.gov.uk/v1-0/schema/CoDets.xsd">
<CompanyNumber>01002361</CompanyNumber>
<GiveMortTotals>1</GiveMortTotals>
</CompanyDetailsRequest>
The "function" call and it's parameters
Now this will give me a response telling me the authorization failed. So if you have an account there, this should work for you.
Here you can find the list of schemes they have for different types of request. Some of them have sample request to help you out. http://xmlgw.companieshouse.gov.uk/v1-0/xmlgw/SchemaStatusOutput
Here is the complete guide of all their schemes. http://xmlgw.companieshouse.gov.uk/data_usage_guide_dec_2013.pdf
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