Suitable software stacks for simple python web service

[Kev Dwyer]

Hello List,

I have to build a simple web service which will:

- receive queries from our other servers
- forward the requests to a third party SOAP service
- process the response from the third party
- send the result back to the original requester

From the point of view of the requester, this will happen within the scope

of a single request.

The data exchanged with the original requester will likely be encoded as
JSON; the SOAP service will be handled by SUDS.

The load is likely to be quite light, say a few requests per hour, though
this may increase in the future.

Given these requirements, what do you think might be a suitable software
stack, i.e. webserver and web framework (if a web framework is even
necessary)?

Candidates should be compatible with Python2.7, though I'd be happy to
consider Python 3 if anyone knows of a Python3 SOAP library that has good
WSDL support.

Cheers,

Kev

 

[Steve Petrie]

Hello List,



I have to build a simple web service which will:



- receive queries from our other servers

- forward the requests to a third party SOAP service

- process the response from the third party

- send the result back to the original requester




of a single request.



The data exchanged with the original requester will likely be encoded as

JSON; the SOAP service will be handled by SUDS.



The load is likely to be quite light, say a few requests per hour, though

this may increase in the future.



Given these requirements, what do you think might be a suitable software

stack, i.e. webserver and web framework (if a web framework is even

necessary)?



Candidates should be compatible with Python2.7, though I'd be happy to

consider Python 3 if anyone knows of a Python3 SOAP library that has good

WSDL support.



Cheers,



Kev

I'm using the Bottle web framework (http://bottlepy.org) to integrate requests and replies originating in a Drupal site, a Beanstream (payment processor) account, and a Salesforce instance.

Communication with Salesforce is done through the Salesforce Python Toolkit (http://code.google.com/p/salesforce-python-toolkit/), which uses Suds.

Communication with the Drupal site uses Python's (and PHP's on the Drupal side) native JSON support.

This is under Python 2.6.8 and Apache 2.2.23 running on an AWS EC2 instance.

No (major) problems so far, though still in the early stages of this project.

Steve



I chose Bottle after trying a few other frameworks because, well, I can't remember exactly why, though thinking back it's probably because of the clarity of Bottle's approach and the simplicity of the documentation.

 

[Steve Petrie]

Hello List,



I have to build a simple web service which will:



- receive queries from our other servers

- forward the requests to a third party SOAP service

- process the response from the third party

- send the result back to the original requester




of a single request.



The data exchanged with the original requester will likely be encoded as

JSON; the SOAP service will be handled by SUDS.



The load is likely to be quite light, say a few requests per hour, though

this may increase in the future.



Given these requirements, what do you think might be a suitable software

stack, i.e. webserver and web framework (if a web framework is even

necessary)?



Candidates should be compatible with Python2.7, though I'd be happy to

consider Python 3 if anyone knows of a Python3 SOAP library that has good

WSDL support.



Cheers,



Kev

I'm using the Bottle web framework (http://bottlepy.org) to integrate requests and replies originating in a Drupal site, a Beanstream (payment processor) account, and a Salesforce instance.

Communication with Salesforce is done through the Salesforce Python Toolkit (http://code.google.com/p/salesforce-python-toolkit/), which uses Suds.

Communication with the Drupal site uses Python's (and PHP's on the Drupal side) native JSON support.

This is under Python 2.6.8 and Apache 2.2.23 running on an AWS EC2 instance.

No (major) problems so far, though still in the early stages of this project.

Steve



I chose Bottle after trying a few other frameworks because, well, I can't remember exactly why, though thinking back it's probably because of the clarity of Bottle's approach and the simplicity of the documentation.

 

[Kev Dwyer]

I'm using the Bottle web framework (http://bottlepy.org) to integrate
requests and replies originating in a Drupal site, a Beanstream (payment
processor) account, and a Salesforce instance.

Communication with Salesforce is done through the Salesforce Python
Toolkit (http://code.google.com/p/salesforce-python-toolkit/), which uses
Suds.

Communication with the Drupal site uses Python's (and PHP's on the Drupal
side) native JSON support.

This is under Python 2.6.8 and Apache 2.2.23 running on an AWS EC2
instance.

No (major) problems so far, though still in the early stages of this
project.

Steve



I chose Bottle after trying a few other frameworks because, well, I can't
remember exactly why, though thinking back it's probably because of the
clarity of Bottle's approach and the simplicity of the documentation.

Hello Steve,

Thanks for your comment.

I'm curious, did you consider any web servers other than Apache?

Kev

 

[Steve Petrie]

Steve Petrie wrote:














Hello Steve,



Thanks for your comment.



I'm curious, did you consider any web servers other than Apache?



Kev

You're telling me that there are other web servers?

I didn't try any others seriously, no. My experience is with Apache and IIS, and I try to stay away from Windows.

I should mention, given Dieter Maurer's comment, that Bottle is a (fairly thin) layer built over WSGI. I've built applications directly over WSGI as well; that's another way to go, it's quite straightforward. mod_python is no longer supported: http://blog.dscpl.com.au/2010/05/modpython-project-soon-to-be-officially.html.

 

[Steve Petrie]

Steve Petrie wrote:














Hello Steve,



Thanks for your comment.



I'm curious, did you consider any web servers other than Apache?



Kev

You're telling me that there are other web servers?

I didn't try any others seriously, no. My experience is with Apache and IIS, and I try to stay away from Windows.

I should mention, given Dieter Maurer's comment, that Bottle is a (fairly thin) layer built over WSGI. I've built applications directly over WSGI as well; that's another way to go, it's quite straightforward. mod_python is no longer supported: http://blog.dscpl.com.au/2010/05/modpython-project-soon-to-be-officially.html.

 

[Kev Dwyer]

You're telling me that there are other web servers?

I didn't try any others seriously, no. My experience is with Apache and
IIS, and I try to stay away from Windows.

I should mention, given Dieter Maurer's comment, that Bottle is a (fairly
thin) layer built over WSGI. I've built applications directly over WSGI
as well; that's another way to go, it's quite straightforward. mod_python
is no longer supported:
http://blog.dscpl.com.au/2010/05/modpython-project-soon-to-be-

officially.html.


Based on Dieter's comment I'm using Bottle as a framework, with gunicorn
(behind nginx) as the webserver. Even Bottle is probably overkill for my
use case, but my time is rather limited, so I'm happy to use an off the
shelf solution. And I must say, configuring gunicorn and nginx contrasted
pleasantly with my memories of struggling with httpd.conf