SOAP demo using Python

Setup

• Install Python >= 3.9
• Install poetry
• Install required dependencies:

$ poetry install

Running the demo

# Start the server in a first shell
$ poetry run python soap/server.py

# Call the say_hello method from an other shell:
$ poetry run python soap/client.py

What's in the repo

In soap/client.py - a SOAP client, written using the zeep library.

In soap/server.py - a SOAP server, written using spyne.

In ./hello.wsdl, the definition of the methods exposed by the demo server

Running the linters and tests

$ poetry run invoke lint
$ poetry run pytest

Deployment

The Server class uses the server from the wsgiref.simple_server standard library module, which is not suitable for production (but fine for development and tests).

For the production environment, one may use gunicorn, like this:

$ gunicorn soap.wsgi:app -b 0.0.0.0:5678