Question

I’ve been trying to use suds for Python to call a SOAP WSDL. I just need to call the service programmatically and write the output XML document. However suds automatically parses this data into it’s own pythonic data format. I’ve been looking through the examples and the documentation, but I can’t seem to find a way to return the XML document that the SOAP service gives me.

Is there an easy way to do this I’m overlooking? Is there an easier way to do this in Python than suds?

Answer 1

At this early stage in suds development, the easiest way to get to the raw XML content is not what one would expect.

The examples on the site show us with something like this:

client = Client(url)
result = client.service.Invoke(subm)

however, the result is a pre-parsed object that is great for access by Python, but not for XML document access. Fortunately the Client object still has the original SOAP message received stored.

result = client.last_received()
print result

Will give you the actual SOAP message received back.