[Zope] Asking advice on best way to perform an interaction with an
external webservice
Dieter Maurer
dieter at handshake.de
Sat Aug 2 03:59:40 EDT 2008
Marco Bizzarri wrote at 2008-8-1 14:57 +0200:
>I need to implement an interaction with an external web service.
>
>The external webservice basically can either provide or accept
>messages from my zope application. The messages are either produced by
>my application (and need to be "sent" to the external application via
>web service) or produced by the external application, and must be
>processed by mine.
When your application is the client ("sent"), then you
can use any of Python frameworks (e.g. "ZSI", "soaplib") to
interface between Python and the webservice (I fear all these
frameworks by now support only SOAP 1.1, not the current
SOAP 1.2).
When your application must act as server, you have
several options (all including some webservice framework)
* set up an additional (non-Zope) server with the support
of the above mentioned frameworks, let it implement
the services.
If the service needs to access ZODB data, it may
be implemented as a ZEO client (this means, that
you must use ZEO as storage provider for both
your Zope and your service).
* implement WebService demarshalling/marshalling
in a Zope object. Then, the demarshalling happens
when the Zope object is traversed. Traversal also
changes the response to perform the demarshalling
of the result.
This requires some fix of "ZPublisher" (as it stupidly
interprets each POST with content-type "text/xml" als
an XML-RPC request.
* implement an SOAP ZServer
The first option is probably the easiest.
We have implemented the second option. The following list
demonstrates the complexity in terms of lines, words and characters:
newdm: wc *.py
189 650 6709 Marshalling.py
10 20 197 Permissions.py
27 71 745 ReprRpc.py
110 393 3727 Response.py
47 128 1286 RpcType.py
161 613 5097 SoapRpc.py
132 517 4593 WsdlRpc.py
208 721 6645 XmlRpc.py
19 46 464 __init__.py
86 322 2667 utils.py
989 3481 32130 total
The third option is probably the most difficult one.
--
Dieter
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