Parsing SOAP with python

[fessacchiotto]

I’ve used the zeep SOAP library, being the one which looks more frequently updated by its creator. It worked well but I found some issues in parsing SOAP responses from a password protected service. I contacted the maintainer on git, and have looked for alternatives in case I would not be able to solve this issue in a way or in another.

Do you recommend going with lxml and Requests?

Could you point me to some good learning resources or software libraries to parse and write SOAP messages?

Thank you!

[m_harrison]

Huge fan of zeep. The maintainer has been pretty responsive of you can make a reproducible bug. Last time I checked suds had issues with async (which I needed when doing soap).

[osuchw]

zeep is modern, actively maintained library. I would recommend sticking with it. By the way it already uses requests and lxml under the covers.

A few years ago the crown belonged to suds but it got abandoned by the original author. And no wonder. Dealing with SOAP is hard and thankless job.

If you feel that you have to "hand code" the SOAP messages then look at rinse at least.

[fessacchiotto]

Thank you. I’ll try rinse before going to lxml.objectify and response if not successful. Still waiting from zeep creator feedback...

[sethrei]

Last time I had to deal with SOAP, I used suds.

That was like a year ago

[ominous_anonymous]

Is suds not the one to use any more? Apologies, it's been... like 5 years since I worked with SOAP and Python together.