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While this repository has been inactive for some time, this formal notice, issued on December 10, 2024, serves as the official declaration to clarify the situation. Consequently, this repository and all associated resources (including related projects, code, documentation, and distributed packages such as Docker images, PyPI packages, etc.) are now explicitly declared unmaintained and abandoned.
I would like to remind everyone that this project’s free license has always been based on the principle that the software is provided "AS-IS", without any warranty or expectation of liability or maintenance from the maintainer. As such, it is used solely at the user's own risk, with no warranty or liability from the maintainer, including but not limited to any damages arising from its use.
Due to the enactment of the Cyber Resilience Act (EU Regulation 2024/2847), which significantly alters the regulatory framework, including penalties of up to €15M, combined with its demands for unpaid and indefinite liability, it has become untenable for me to continue maintaining all my Open Source Projects as a natural person. The new regulations impose personal liability risks and create an unacceptable burden, regardless of my personal situation now or in the future, particularly when the work is done voluntarily and without compensation.
No further technical support, updates (including security patches), or maintenance, of any kind, will be provided.
These resources may remain online, but solely for public archiving, documentation, and educational purposes.
Users are strongly advised not to use these resources in any active or production-related projects, and to seek alternative solutions that comply with the new legal requirements (EU CRA).
Using these resources outside of these contexts is strictly prohibited and is done at your own risk.
Regarding the potential transfer of the project to another entity, discussions are ongoing, but no final decision has been made yet. As a last resort, if the project and its associated resources are not transferred, I may begin removing any published resources related to this project (e.g., from PyPI, Docker Hub, GitHub, etc.) starting March 15, 2025, especially if the CRA’s risks remain disproportionate.
Please use suds rather than SOAPpy. SOAPpy is old and clamsy.
- Cayce Ullman <c_ullman@yahoo.com>
- Brian Matthews <blm@blmatthews.com>
- Gregory R. Warnes <Gregory.R.Warnes@Pfizer.com>
- Makina Corpus <python@makina-corpus.com>
- Mathieu Le Marec - Pasquet <kiorky@cryptelium.net>
- Christopher Blunck <blunck2@gst.com>
- Brad Knotwell <b.knotwell@f5.com>
- Mark Bucciarelli <mark@hubcapconsulting.com> (ported WSDL client from ZSI)
- Ivan R. Judson <judson@mcs.anl.gov> (Globus support)
- Kirk Strauser <kirk@daycos.com>
- Antonio Beamud Montero <antonio.beamud@linkend.com> (patches for integrating SOAPpy into Zope)
- And others.
Copyright (c) 20011 Makina Corpus Copyright (c) 2002-2005, Pfizer, Inc. Copyright (c) 2001, Cayce Ullman. Copyright (c) 2001, Brian Matthews. All rights reserved, see the file LICENSE for conditions of use.
The goal of the SOAPpy team is to provide a full-featured SOAP library for Python that is very simple to use and that fully supports dynamic interaction between clients and servers.
- General SOAP Parser based on sax.xml
- General SOAP Builder
- SOAP Proxy for RPC client code
- SOAP Server framework for RPC server code
- Handles all SOAP 1.0 types
- Handles faults
- Allows namespace specification
- Allows SOAPAction specification
- Homogeneous typed arrays
- Supports multiple schemas
- Header support (mustUnderstand and actor)
- XML attribute support
- Multi-referencing support (Parser/Builder)
- Understands SOAP-ENC:root attribute
- Good interop, passes all client tests for Frontier, SOAP::LITE, SOAPRMI
- Encodings
- SSL clients (with Python compiled with OpenSSL support)
- SSL servers (with Python compiled with OpenSSL support and M2Crypto installed)
- Encodes XML tags per SOAP 1.2 name mangling specification (Gregory Warnes)
- Automatic stateful SOAP server support (Apache v2.x) (blunck2)
- WSDL client support
- WSDL server support
- Timeout on method calls
- Advanced arrays (sparse, multidimensional and partial)
- Attachments
- mod_python example
- medusa example
- Improved documentation
Files
README This file
RELEASE_NOTES General information about each release
ChangeLog Detailed list of changes
TODO List of tasks that need to be done
setup.py Python installation control files
SOAPpy.spec RPM package control file
Directories
SOAPpy/ Source code for the package
SOAPpy/wstools/ Source code for WSDL tools
tests/ unit tests and examples
validate/ interop client and servers
bid/ N+I interop client and server
contrib/ Contributed examples (also see test/)
docs/ Documentation
tools/ Misc tools useful for the SOAPpy developers
zope/ Patches to Zope allowing it to provide SOAP services
You can install SOAPpy and its dependencies directly from GitHub using PIP:
pip install -e "git+http://github.com/kiroky/SOAPpy.git@develop#egg=SOAPpy"
- wstools
- pyGlobus, optional support for Globus, <http://www-itg.lbl.gov/gtg/projects/pyGlobus/>
- M2Crypto.SSL, optional support for server-side SSL <http://sandbox.rulemaker.net/ngps/m2/>
- If Python is compiled with SSL support (Python 2.3 does so by default), client-side use of SSL is supported
As of version 0.9.8 SOAPpy can be installed using the standard python package installation tools.
To install:
Unpack the distribution package:
On Windows, use your favorite zip file uncompression tool.
On Unix:
$ tar -xvzf SOAPpy-$VERSION$.tar.gz
- If you have gnu tar, otherwise
Change into the source directory
cd SOAPpy-$VERSION$Compile the package:
$ python setup.py buildInstall the package
On Windows:
$ python setup.py installOn Unix install as the owner of the python directories (usally root):
$ su root Password: XXXXXX $ python setup.py install
A simple "Hello World" http SOAP server:
import SOAPpy
def hello():
return "Hello World"
server = SOAPpy.SOAPServer(("localhost", 8080))
server.registerFunction(hello)
server.serve_forever()
And the corresponding client:
import SOAPpy
server = SOAPpy.SOAPProxy("http://localhost:8080/")
print server.hello()
Mark Pilgrims _Dive Into Python, published in printed form by Apress and online at at http://diveintopython.org provides a nice tutorial for SOAPpy in Chapter 12, "SOAP Web Services". See http://diveintopython.org/soap_web_services .
For further information see the files in the docs/ directory.
Note that documentation is one of SOAPpy's current weak points. Please help us out!
Github: https://github.com/kiorky/SOAPpy Issues: https://github.com/kiorky/SOAPpy/issues