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ohid
ohid

Reputation: 155

How to send raw XML instead of bytes data over Python Socket?

Is there any method for Socket of Python to deliver XML instead of bytes. As the server side only recieves raw XML. I tried the code below but it raises attribute error, it asks for bytes instead of string. Any idea?

  import socket

  server_ip = "192.168.88.52"
  port = 2605

  socket_obj = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
  socket_obj.settimeout(5.0)

  try:
      socket_obj.connect((server_ip, port, ))
      command = '<SERVICE ID="TA"><TRACKID_GET></TRACKID_GET></SERVICE>'

      socket_obj.send(command)
      print(f"Successfully send the command")

      data = socket_obj.recv(4096)
      print(f"Received Response: {data}")
  except socket.timeout as e:
      print(f"Response TimeOut: {e}")
      socket_obj.close()
  except Exception as e:
      print(f"Failed to connect to the P1 server: {e}")

Upvotes: 1

Views: 858

Answers (1)

AKX
AKX

Reputation: 169267

There is no such thing as "raw XML" (except as an abstract concept).

There is also no such thing as sending "text" over the network (or writing it into a file for that matter).

Whatever you want to send through your socket will have to be encoded into bytes using some encoding. Just .encode() will default to UTF-8, which will probably do fine here (until it probably won't).

Also, you'll probably want .sendall() to ensure everything has been sent.

Upvotes: 2

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