Hi The idea (at least for the contrib pysimplesoap) is to be simple, so it is really simple: just instantiate the SoapClient ("connecting" to the wsdl), and then make the call to the method using simple python data types.
You don't need any advanced API nor creating artifacts/objects, and if you webservice is too complex, you can use raw xml request and responses, using a xml helper to parse the response. You can see the documentation from the library in the project site: https://code.google.com/p/pysimplesoap/wiki/SoapClient and more examples from tests: https://code.google.com/p/pysimplesoap/source/browse/#hg%2Ftests If you want, let me know the webservice wsdl url and what method you want to call, I'll try to make a more concrete example. Best regards, Mariano Reingart http://www.sistemasagiles.com.ar http://reingart.blogspot.com On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 12:19 AM, horridohobbyist <horrido.hobb...@gmail.com>wrote: > I would like to use SOAP to communicate with a third-party web service > (eg, from Fedex), but the documentation (ie, web2py book) is awfully > skimpy. I'd like to see some examples. I'd like to see a complete > description of the "API". I want to understand the general procedure for > making a SOAP request. Can anyone help? > > -- > Resources: > - http://web2py.com > - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) > - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) > - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "web2py-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.