Question

I’m looking for a python library for easily creating a server which exposes web services (SOAP), and can process multiple requests simultaneously.

I’ve tried using ZSI and rcplib, but with no success.

Update:
Thanks for your answers. Both ZSI and rcplib (the successor of soaplib) implement their own Http server. How do I integrate ZSI/rcplib with the libraries you mentioned?

Update2:
After some tweaking, I managed to install and run this on linux, and it seems to work well.
Then I installed it on windows, after a lot of ugly tweakings, and then I stubmled upon the fact that WSGIDaemonProcess isn’t supported in windows (also mentioned in mod_wsgi docs). I tried to run it anyway, and it does seems to work on each request asynchronicly, but I’m not sure it will work well under pressure.

Thanks anyway…

Answer 1

Hello World example of rpclib

Please check this from rpclib example

# File /home/myhome/test.wsgi
import logging

from rpclib.application import Application
from rpclib.decorator import srpc
from rpclib.interface.wsdl import Wsdl11
from rpclib.protocol.soap import Soap11
from rpclib.service import ServiceBase
from rpclib.model.complex import Iterable
from rpclib.model.primitive import Integer
from rpclib.model.primitive import String
from rpclib.server.wsgi import WsgiApplication

class HelloWorldService(ServiceBase):
    @srpc(String, Integer, _returns=Iterable(String))
    def say_hello(name, times):
        '''
        Docstrings for service methods appear as documentation in the wsdl
        <b>what fun</b>
        @param name the name to say hello to
        @param the number of times to say hello
        @return the completed array
        '''

        for i in xrange(times):
            yield 'Hello, %s' % name

application = WsgiApplication(Application([HelloWorldService], 'rpclib.examples.hello.soap',
                interface=Wsdl11(), in_protocol=Soap11(), out_protocol=Soap11()))

Also change your apache config as

WSGIDaemonProcess example processes=5 threads=5
WSGIProcessGroup example

WSGIScriptAlias / /home/myhome/test.wsgi
<Directory /home/myhome/>
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</Directory>

As per your requirement you can change the processes and threads.