Suitable software stacks for simple python web service

[Kev Dwyer]

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