Can I write a SOAP server using python suds?

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I started using suds for soap clients and will never touch ZSI again.

I know suds is meant for the client side, but I would love to use it to make also the server site, in order to get rid of ZSI.

How could I use suds to parse soap requests instead of responses?

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If you want to expose some interface using SOAP, the best option seems to be rpclib. Flask-enterprise looks promising. Both will produce a WSDL from Python code.
If instead you need to write a Python SOAP webservice adhering to a WSDL produced by a third part, nothing so far beats ZSI.

Can you explain why you are so eager to ditch ZSI? I am thinking of creating a system based on it, and I think that knowing your rationale will help me make a better choice. — ralien, Mar 14 '12 at 14:38
Ha, I can think of a sentence like your `...never touch...` sentence that reads as with "suds" replaced with "REST" and "ZSI" replaced with "SOAP". — orokusaki, Nov 02 '12 at 17:59

score 7 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:47

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To write a SOAP server in Python, you can use the micro web framework - Flask, with it's plugin - Flask-enterprise

There is also a similar question here in stackoverflow:

They use soaplib for providing SOAP service, as you can find the document here http://soaplib.github.com/soaplib/2_0/pages/helloworld.html

edited May 23 '17 at 11:47

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answered Feb 29 '12 at 02:51

Fang-Pen Lin

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In Flask-Enterprise is there any way to set maximum and minimum number of elements on SOAP Arrays - or for setting if a Complex element property is mandatory or optional? – Paulo Scardine Mar 02 '12 at 01:21
My enthusiasm over Flask-Enterprise faded pretty quicky. Seems like there is no support for setting minimum and maximum number of occurrences in complex types. – Paulo Scardine Mar 05 '12 at 12:46

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered May 13 '14 at 06:27

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If you decided to use Flask - try new flask-spyne extension.

flask-enterprise mentioned above is a wrapper on top of discontinued soaplib, while flask-spyne is a wrapper on top of spyne - successor of soaplib.

answered May 13 '14 at 06:27

ARA1307

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