SOAPpy and ArrayOfString

[icius]

Hello all,

I am trying to use a web services API with Python and SOAPpy as a
client. Some of the method paramters in this web service's WSDL are
asking for an "ArrayOfString" type. Here is my code so far:

#!/usr/bin/python

from SOAPpy import WSDL

wsdlFile =
'http://localhost:8080/axis/services/USD_R11_WebService?WSDL'

server = WSDL.Proxy(wsdlFile)

server.soapproxy.config.dumpSOAPOut = 1
server.soapproxy.config.dumpSOAPIn = 1

SID = server.login('srvcdesk', 'xxxxxxxx')

contacts = server.doSelect(SID, 'cnt', "userid = 'abeju01'", 1,
['last_name', 'first_name', 'userid'])


I tried using a simple Python list for the argument that wants
"ArrayOfString". Python generates the following XML for the last
argument of the "doSelect" command above:

<v5 SOAP-ENC:arrayType="xsd:string[3]" xsi:type="SOAP-ENC:Array">
<item>last_name</item>
<item>first_name</item>
<item>userid</item>
</v5>


The web service does not like this at all and returns the following
error:

SOAPpy.Types.faultType: <Fault soapenv:Server.userException:
org.xml.sax.SAXException: Bad types (class [Ljava.lang.Object; -> class
usdjws65.ArrayOfString): >


I know in Perl I had to do some special gyrations to pass the right
structue for ArrayOfString to this same web service. Is there any way
to force a type in Python or any other ideas on how to do this?

 

[icius]

Figured it out. This works:


#!/usr/bin/python

import SOAPpy

wsdlFile =
'http://localhost:8080/axis/services/USD_R11_WebService?WSDL'

server = SOAPpy.WSDL.Proxy(wsdlFile)

server.soapproxy.config.dumpSOAPOut = 1
server.soapproxy.config.dumpSOAPIn = 1

SID = server.login('srvcdesk', 'xxxxxxxxx')

attr = SOAPpy.structType()
attr._addItem('string', 'userid')
attr._addItem('string', 'last_name')
attr._addItem('string', 'first_name')

contacts = server.doSelect(SID, 'cnt', "userid = 'srvcdesk'", 1, attr)

print contacts

server.logout(SID)


The XML generated is very similar, but my web service seems to like
this for some reason...weird.