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Using soap with web2py

This requires that you install soaplib.

The server (pure Python + soaplib)

We assume this soaplib server:

from soaplib.wsgi_soap import SimpleWSGISoapApp
from soaplib.service import soapmethod
from soaplib.serializers.primitive import *
from time import ctime
from wsgiref.simple_server import make_server

class MyServer(SimpleWSGISoapApp):
    @soapmethod(_returns=String)
    def get_time(self):
        return ctime() # service implementation

make_server('', 8001, MyServer()).serve_forever()

The client (in web2py)

The create this web2py controller that gets the time from the soap server

from soaplib.client import make_service_client
from soaplib.wsgi_soap import SimpleWSGISoapApp
from soaplib.service import soapmethod
from soaplib.serializers.primitive import *

class MyServer(SimpleWSGISoapApp):
    @soapmethod(_returns=String)
    def get_time(self):
        return '' # service stub

def index():
    ### connect to server
    client=make_service_client('localhost:8001/',MyServer())
    ### call remote function
    return client.get_time()