Hello everybody, recently I was able to debug and successfully use an apache cxf webservice from a soappy client.
There were 3 distinct tricks I had to use and so I figured to document the tricks to a public place in case anybody else is interested The first observation is that for methods not containing any input everything works as advertised The problem starts when you want to actually pass any parameters. In that case you have to: 1) specify the namespace 2) use the patch below to enable the namespace per argument support 3) if the medhod has multiple parameters you have to specify the correct ordering here are the steps in an example #!/usr/bin/python import SOAPpy ns1="http://iface.ws.lib.biovista.com/";; server = SOAPpy.SOAPProxy("http://srv-eu.biovista.com/ws/BEAService";, namespace=ns1); # step 1 print server.getAvailableTypes(); print server.getText(pubmed_id=1233); #server.config.dumpSOAPOut = 1; #server.config.dumpSOAPIn = 1; server.config.argsOrdering = {'getBibliography': ['name', 'type', 'max_results']}; # step 3 print server.getBibliography(name="il-6", type="Gene", max_results=4); ----------------- patch to SOAPpy ----------------------- # step 2 --- SOAPBuilder.py.orig 2009-04-08 12:00:34.000000000 +0300 +++ SOAPBuilder.py 2009-04-08 13:23:02.000000000 +0300 @@ -316,6 +316,8 @@ tag = tag or self.gentag() + if self.namespace: + tag = ns_map.get(self.namespace) + ":" + tag tag = toXMLname(tag) # convert from SOAP 1.2 XML name encoding a = n = t = '' .bill
