SOAP using ZSI talking to .NET Web Service

Russell Russell.Every at MentumGroup.com
Tue Aug 19 00:53:17 EDT 2003


Using Python 2.3 and ZSI 1.2 I am having problems getting information
back from a test web service running on a PC on our LAN.

The SOAP request details (from the .asmxfile) are as follows:

POST /rjetest/rjetestservice.asmx HTTP/1.1
Host: grouse
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: length
SOAPAction: "http://RJE.com/RJETestItDoc"

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<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:Body>
    <RJETestItDoc xmlns="http://RJE.com">
      <i>int</i>
      <extra>string</extra>
    </RJETestItDoc>
  </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

and the response details (from the .asmx) are:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: length

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<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:Body>
    <RJETestItDocResponse xmlns="http://RJE.com">
      <RJETestItDocResult>string</RJETestItDocResult>
    </RJETestItDocResponse>
  </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>


The Python program is:

import sys
from ZSI.client import Binding, TC

class fooRequest:
	def __init__(self, i, extra):
		self.i = i
		self.extra = extra

fooRequest.typecode = TC.Struct(fooRequest, [TC.Integer('i'),
TC.String('extra')], 'RJETestItDoc')


url1 = 'http://grouse/rjetest/rjetestservice.asmx'
soapaction ='http://RJE.com/RJETestItDoc'
namespace = 'http://RJE.com'

host = 'grouse'
port = 80

dict = {
		'soap' :	'http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/',
		's' :		'http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema',
		's0' : 		'http://RJE.com',
		'http' :	'http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/http/',
		'tm' :		'http://microsoft.com/wsdl/mime/textMatching/',
		'mime' :	'http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/mime/',
		'soapenc' :	'http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/'
		}
i = 10
extra = 'A lovely day at the office'

b = Binding(url=url1, ns=namespace, host=host, port=port, nsdict=dict,
soapaction=soapaction, tracefile=sys.stdout)
b.Send(url1, 'RJETestItDoc', fooRequest(i, extra))
x = b.ReceiveSOAP()


The SOAP response via the Python program is:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"><soap:Body><RJETestItDocResponse
xmlns="http://RJE.com">
<RJETestItDocResult>********** A lovely day at the office
**********</RJETestItDocResult>
</RJETestItDocResponse></soap:Body></soap:Envelope>

and looks fine (to me anyway).

However...  I can't figure out how to get the text from response.  Any
advice would be very much appreciated.  The input values are being
correctly received by the web service.




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