the archaic SOAP system i have to interface with (read: ericsson ipx api hates the internet and its users) just "updated" their api to require sequences meaning I now have to make the xml stanzas go in a specific order because, you know, that's useful
@randomfrequency: there are various python libraries that got to various points of support before their developers shot themselves or the people people running the interfaces they were trying to talk to
Last time I had to use SOAP a few years ago, and I got a feeling that it works ok, if both client and service use same
* language
* language version
* software to generate SOAP interfaces
* versions of that software
But oh boy, when I tried to get Python client to talk SOAP to Java service (which I both "owned"). Madness.
Skip SOAP, it's better au naturale, if not downright dirty.
i think i am about through fighting with this soap api today, i am now past all the libraries and generating xml by hand but as i don't yet have an example to work from i am not getting anywhere, anybody want to point a java SOAP library at this, generate a sample request and email me the xml it generates? termie at g to the oogle.com
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yup I say give SOAP a REST
1 year, 5 months ago by bobbyd
SOAP: We want to sell you more expensive tools.
1 year, 5 months ago by randomfrequency
No shit. I've been developing a new Web interface with Python to this relic Java-based system two years now, and boy am I fed up with SOAP calls :/
Now I understand why so many Java developers like to poke themselves with needles and shit.
1 year, 5 months ago by Uninen
Hey, I take offense to that.
There's tools for generating SOAP interfaces java side, like axis and shit.
Isn't there a python version?
1 year, 5 months ago by randomfrequency
the archaic SOAP system i have to interface with (read: ericsson ipx api hates the internet and its users) just "updated" their api to require sequences meaning I now have to make the xml stanzas go in a specific order because, you know, that's useful
1 year, 5 months ago by termie
Ugh, so someone doesn't know how to use saxp?
1 year, 5 months ago by randomfrequency
@randomfrequency: there are various python libraries that got to various points of support before their developers shot themselves or the people people running the interfaces they were trying to talk to
1 year, 5 months ago by termie
excellent.
1 year, 5 months ago by randomfrequency
Last time I had to use SOAP a few years ago, and I got a feeling that it works ok, if both client and service use same * language * language version * software to generate SOAP interfaces * versions of that software
But oh boy, when I tried to get Python client to talk SOAP to Java service (which I both "owned"). Madness.
Skip SOAP, it's better au naturale, if not downright dirty.
1 year, 5 months ago by teemu
i think i am about through fighting with this soap api today, i am now past all the libraries and generating xml by hand but as i don't yet have an example to work from i am not getting anywhere, anybody want to point a java SOAP library at this, generate a sample request and email me the xml it generates? termie at g to the oogle.com
1 year, 5 months ago by termie
forgot to hit cmd-v http://europe.ipx.com/api/services2/SmsApi51?wsdl
1 year, 5 months ago by termie
lol, soap is definitely not how you do it :D
1 year, 5 months ago by bested