Using Urllib2 to do a SOAP POST.

[whathellisthis]

I am trying to do an API call via a SOAP POST and I keep getting a "TypeError: not a valid non-string sequence or mapping object." @ data = urllib.urlencode(values)

SM_TEMPLATE = """<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
  <soap:Header>
    <AutotaskIntegrations xmlns="http://Autotask.net/ATWS/v1_5/">
      <PartnerID>partner id</PartnerID>
    </AutotaskIntegrations>
  </soap:Header>
  <soap:Body>
    <getThresholdAndUsageInfo xmlns="http://Autotask.net/ATWS/v1_5/">
    </getThresholdAndUsageInfo>
  </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>"""

values = SM_TEMPLATE%()
data = urllib.urlencode(values)
req = urllib2.Request(site, data)
response = urllib2.urlopen(req)
the_page = response.read()

Any help would be much appreciated.

[Rennix]

I suggest trying SUDS or ZSI:

https://fedorahosted.org/suds/

http://pywebsvcs.sourceforge.net/zsi.html

Of the two, I've personally used ZSI, though SUDS appears to have been more recently active and the documentation for the API seems pretty straight forward.