[maemo-developers] SOAP Web Services

[From: Tim Allen]

Hi Daniel,

Thanks a lot for the reply.

It will most probably just be written in C, but we'd consider Python if the
advantages were really there.  Do you think Python is quick to learn and how
do you think it compares for making a simple GTK app?

It is going to be an application that could be used by truck drivers to
declare the mass they have on board their vehicle.  This would be notified
to the back end via a web service call.  In time they will also be able to
declare their rest breaks, etc, using the app.

Directly creating the SOAP envelope and parsing the reply doesn't sound like
much fun - do you think it would take a lot of time to get right?

What's ZSI?

Cheers,
Tim.

-----Original Message-----
From: maemo-developers-bounces at maemo.org
[mailto:maemo-developers-bounces at maemo.org] On Behalf Of daniel wilms
Sent: Monday, 20 April 2009 3:42 PM
To: maemo-developers at maemo.org
Subject: Re: SOAP Web Services

hi,

I don't know, how you've created your app, but you could do it with Python.
There is a project, which does the parsing for you [1] and which helps u
setting up the client with the help of the WSDL file. But it depends on what
you want to do. If you only have one specific service, ZSI is a bit too much
I guess. You could directly create the SOAP envelope and send it with
urllib2 or httplib and then parse the response with python-xml.

if this does not help, give a few more details about your app ;)

[1] http://pywebsvcs.sourceforge.net/


daniel
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