SOAP 1.2 python client

Question

I am looking for a python SOAP 1.2 client but it seems that it does not exist . All of the existing clients are either not maintainted or only compatible with SOAP 1.1:

• suds
• SOAPpy
• ZSI

Answer 1

Even though this question has an accepted answer, there's a few notes I'd like regarding suds.

I'm currently writing some code for interfacing with .tel community hosting for work and I needed a Python SOAP library, and suds was pretty much ideal except for its lack of support for SOAP 1.2.

I managed to hack around the problem as for my purposes, SOAP 1.1 and SOAP 1.2 share enough in common that I was able to simply patch suds to use the SOAP 1.2 envelope namespace. I outlined what I did in this gist: https://gist.github.com/858851

As it's worth reproducing here, here's the code:

from suds.client import Client
from suds.bindings import binding
import logging


USERNAME = 'username'
PASSWORD = 'password'

# Just for debugging purposes.
logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)
logging.getLogger('suds.client').setLevel(logging.DEBUG)

# Telnic's SOAP server expects a SOAP 1.2 envelope, not a SOAP 1.1 envelope
# and will complain if this hack isn't done.
binding.envns = ('SOAP-ENV', 'http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope')
client = Client('client.wsdl',
    username=USERNAME,
    password=PASSWORD,
    headers={'Content-Type': 'application/soap+xml'})

# This will now work just fine.
client.service.someRandomMethod()

If I've time, I'm planning on submitting a patch to suds to allow the version of SOAP to be used to be specified, and to add enough missing functionality to make it useful.