@Waldemar
Thanks man , i think using Boto will be the right approach.
@Dale
I was looking for a SOAP tool kit because I am well versed with it ,
anyways thanks a ton man for that piece of code , i can now implement
RESt apis if not SOAP, and if i find some SOAP toolkit i ll let you
know
Anyways thanks guys for the support
pacific
On Sep 19, 6:12 am, dalenewman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Search on google for "pyaws" - it's a pretty good wrapper for amazon
> ecs. It's not SOAP. You don't really need to use SOAP all the time;
> all the Amazon web services have http get (or REST like) calls as
> well, and a lot of "toolkits" actually use this method rather than
> carry the overhead of SOAP.
>
> To get it to work for GAE, you'll have to add this to the top:
>
> from google.appengine.api import urlfetch
>
> And change the query function to this:
>
> def query(url):
> """Send the query url and return the DOM
>
> Exception is raised if there is errors"""
> result = urlfetch.fetch(url)
> dom = minidom.parseString(result.content)
> errors = dom.getElementsByTagName('Error')
> if errors:
> e = buildException(errors)
> raise e
> return dom
>
> This is working in my practice app athttp://www.bookdope.com. You'll
> end up walking through a dom (document object model) representation of
> the response, which is not great, but you can pretty much get the job
> done.
>
> But, if you find a TIGHT SOAP toolkit for Python and a nice toolkit
> for Amazon ECS (Associates bla bla bla now) built to use it, let me
> know :-)
>
> Dale
>
> On Sep 18, 9:41 pm, pacific <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Thanks Wooble for the help but I still can't understand let say when i
> > am coding in Java or C# , i call the WSDL of the web service and then
> > call the desired methods through the object i create for the web
> > service eg , in case of book catalog search SOAP API from amazon , i
> > call in the method item.itemsearchrequest(query) to the web service
> > and get results in the object
>
> > But how can i accomplish this same thing in python , i simply cant
> > figure out. Is it something which is achieved by GET ?, Also correct
> > me if I am wrong, i cant use the standard SOAP API in googe app engine
> > right as there is no concept of rest api right ? Also as you said URL
> > fetch will work but how can i know i want to use this method of the
> > api and how to get the results ?
>
> > I knw i have asked so many thinks but i only came to the group after i
> > was tired with all my research about calling web services in GAE
>
> > Thanks in advance
>
> > Pacific
>
> > On Sep 18, 12:25 pm, Wooble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > Yes; the urlfetch API can do anything that's accomplished through an
> > > HTTP request, as long as the web service isn't really slow; your
> > > scripts only have 10 seconds to execute and they'll timeout if they
> > > try to contact a web service that takes longer than that to respond.
>
> > > Note that if the web service you want to use has a standard python API
> > > kit, it's probably not going to work but will need to be adapted to
> > > use urlfetch instead of urllib or sockets. Or you could just write
> > > the code to do the HTTP calls and parse the responses yourself.
>
> > > On Sep 18, 2:39 am,pacific<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > > Hi there
>
> > > > I have just started coding in GAE , I want to develop an application
> > > > which can call a different web services like amazon book catalog
> > > > search web service but enormous amount of search on blogs , youtube ,
> > > > google code didnt gave me any example of how to call web services from
> > > > Python.
>
> > > > I just got some examples where some rss feeds are being called but no
> > > > application where in a web service was called for doing some function
> > > > for eq searching for a book on amazon and amazon has a web service for
> > > > that , i did that in Java and C# but cant figurede out how to do in
> > > > GAE
>
> > > > Thanks for the help
>
> > > >pacific
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