python soap client library

Question

There's a service in internet that i want to query with SOAP protocol. When searching for SOAP libraries for Python this post was informative: https://stackoverflow.com/a/206964. But none of libraries that i tried worked for this specific service. I have PHP script that works:

<?php

$client = new SoapClient('https://personyze.com/site/service/service/social_archive/', array('trace' => true));
$result = $client->__soapCall
(   'select', array
    (   array('server_id'=>123456, 'api_key'=>123456), 'user_id', null, null, false, 0, 1
    )
);
echo $client->__getLastRequestHeaders(), $client->__getLastRequest(), "RESULT:\n";
var_dump($result);

I have made the following attempts to do the same in Python:

1.

from suds.client import Client
client = Client("https://personyze.com/site/service/service/social_archive/")

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/suds-0.3.7-py2.7.egg/suds/client.py", line 109, in __init__
    self.wsdl = Definitions(url, options)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/suds-0.3.7-py2.7.egg/suds/wsdl.py", line 194, in __init__
    self.build_schema()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/suds-0.3.7-py2.7.egg/suds/wsdl.py", line 255, in build_schema
    self.schema = container.load()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/suds-0.3.7-py2.7.egg/suds/xsd/schema.py", line 92, in load
    child.dereference()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/suds-0.3.7-py2.7.egg/suds/xsd/schema.py", line 295, in dereference
    midx, deps = x.dependencies()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/suds-0.3.7-py2.7.egg/suds/xsd/sxbasic.py", line 330, in dependencies
    raise TypeNotFound(self.ref)
suds.TypeNotFound: Type not found: '(Array, http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/, )'

2.

from pysimplesoap.client import SoapClient
client = SoapClient(wsdl="https://personyze.com/site/service/service/social_archive/", trace=True)
client.select({"server_id":123456, "api_key":123456}, "user_id")

Much better! The best result for today. The only thing this library does wrong is that it calls method selectRequest() instead of select().

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pysimplesoap/client.py", line 140, in <lambda>
    return lambda *args, **kwargs: self.wsdl_call(attr,*args,**kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pysimplesoap/client.py", line 289, in wsdl_call
    response = self.call(method, *params)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pysimplesoap/client.py", line 188, in call
    raise SoapFault(unicode(response.faultcode), unicode(response.faultstring))
pysimplesoap.client.SoapFault: SOAP-ENV:Server: Procedure 'selectRequest' not present

3.

import SOAPpy
client = SOAPpy.SOAPProxy("https://personyze.com/site/service/service/social_archive/", "urn:SocialArchiveServiceProviderwsdl")
client.select({"server_id":123456, "api_key":123456}, "user_id", None, None, False, 0, 2)

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/SOAPpy-0.12.6-py2.7.egg/SOAPpy/Client.py", line 540, in __call__
    return self.__r_call(*args, **kw)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/SOAPpy-0.12.6-py2.7.egg/SOAPpy/Client.py", line 562, in __r_call
    self.__hd, self.__ma)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/SOAPpy-0.12.6-py2.7.egg/SOAPpy/Client.py", line 464, in __call
    p, attrs = parseSOAPRPC(r, attrs = 1)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/SOAPpy-0.12.6-py2.7.egg/SOAPpy/Parser.py", line 1074, in parseSOAPRPC
    t = _parseSOAP(xml_str, rules = rules)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/SOAPpy-0.12.6-py2.7.egg/SOAPpy/Parser.py", line 1054, in _parseSOAP
    parser.parse(inpsrc)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/sax/expatreader.py", line 107, in parse
    xmlreader.IncrementalParser.parse(self, source)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/sax/xmlreader.py", line 123, in parse
    self.feed(buffer)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/sax/expatreader.py", line 207, in feed
    self._parser.Parse(data, isFinal)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/sax/expatreader.py", line 338, in start_element_ns
    AttributesNSImpl(newattrs, qnames))
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/SOAPpy-0.12.6-py2.7.egg/SOAPpy/Parser.py", line 109, in startElementNS
    "got `%s'" % toStr( name )
SOAPpy.Errors.Error: <Error : expected `SOAP-ENV:Envelope', got `wsdl:definitions'>

Please tell me what can i do to make it work.

Answer 1

The server's WSDL schema seems to be broken - it references named objects without importing them.

See the suds documentation on fixing broken schemas on how to work around that with suds.

Also see this question for more details.

This seems to work for me:

from suds.xsd.doctor import Import
from suds.xsd.doctor import ImportDoctor
from suds.client import Client


url = 'https://personyze.com/site/service/service/social_archive/'
tns = 'urn:SocialArchiveServiceProviderwsdl'

imp = Import('http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/', 'http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/')
imp.filter.add(tns)
client = Client(url,plugins=[ImportDoctor(imp)])

print client.service.select({"server_id":123456, "api_key":123456}, "user_id")