#PySimpleSOAP introduction

The PySimpleSoap Library is transplanted from http://code.google.com/p/pysimplesoap/.And just changed interface base on it. Main function : Have four main modules: client, server, soap msg decode, soap msg encode; Parse the WSDL file.

##PySimpleSOAP structure specificaiton

Main file in PySimpleSOAP

File name	Main function
api.py	Soap message decode
client.py	Simulate a client,send request and get response
mime.py	Structure MIME part of msg
server.py	Pythonic simple SOAP Server implementation,used dispatcher module
simplexml.py	Simple XML manipulation,structure xml msg
wsdl.py	wsdl parsing module

api.py: Decode soap message to a dict

• Get content_type from headers
• Get boundary from content_type
• Get body content by splitting body
• Get the xml content
• Sending the xml content to simplexml. SimpleXMLElement, return the dict

client.py: Startup a client and interactive with server

• Handler the arguments
• Structure soap message’s body and header
• Start a client and post the request to server(IMP)
• Get the response from server
• Call api.decode to decode response

mime.py: structure soap message body

• Import uuid module and create boundary base on timestamp
• Write in Content-Type and soap body
• Write in the attachment file

server.py: only introduce SoapDispatcher class

• Simple Dispatcher for SOAP Server
• Corresponding server dispatch by url,soap_action
• Get response operation by dispatch
• Encode Response to xml form and return data.

simplexml.py: structure xml msg according to arguments

wsdl.py: Parse WSDL file

• Parse wsdl file to five variable value (elements, messages, port_types, bindings, services)