[This version is discontinued. Please head over to http://github.com/arskom/rpclib for the next version. See here]
Soaplib is an easy to use Python library for publishing SOAP web services using WSDL 1.1 standard, and answering SOAP 1.1 requests. With a very small amount of code, soaplib allows you to write a useful web service and deploy it as a WSGI application. (Non-WSGI scenarios are also supported.)
Public discussion about soaplib can be found on the Python general SOAP mailing list.
The source code is here.
The legacy versions of soaplib are also available in this repository:
To install soaplib, you can use git to clone from github or install from pypi:
git clone git://github.com/soaplib/soaplib.git
cd soaplib
python setup.py install
# to run the non-interop tests use:
python setup.py test
# if you want to make any changes to the soaplib code, use:
python setup.py develop
If you wish to contribute to soaplib’s development, create a personal fork on GitHub. When you are ready to push to the repo, submit a pull request, and one of the core committers will review and respond.
For code changes make sure the existing tests pass; if you are adding new features please have accompanying test. Of course, we’re also interested in increasing test coverage, so new tests are especially welcome!
Please follow the PEP 8 <http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/> style guidelines for both source code and docstrings.
We could also use help with the docs, which are built from reStructureText using Sphinx. It’s easy to learn, and if you need help getting started, contact us on the mailing list <http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/soap/> and we’ll help.
Regular contributors may be invited to join the soaplib organization on GitHub. This provides a way for multiple contributors to commit to the same repository, with no need for pull requests. It also provides stable home for the soaplib repository, despite any “changing of the guard” as team members join and leave the project.
The soaplib.model API provides an elegant way of declaring within Python classes the XML Schema (W3C) elements which make up a WSDL. This can also be used to produce generic XSD for non-SOAP applications.