Hello All!

I have developed a test web service, which contains a Testing function which have 2 string parameters and returns a string. This web service is accessible from dotnet client. But when I try to acces it from Python, it throws exception. Please help me.

code of python is written below.

python code:

#!/usr/bin/env python

import os
import cPickle
import pprint
from time import *
import httplib
import urllib
import sys
import re
from elementtree import ElementTree as ET

import logging
import logging.config

# makes the XML pretty to look at
def indent(elem, level=0):
    i = "\n" + level*"  "
    if len(elem):
        if not elem.text or not elem.text.strip():
            elem.text = i + "  "
        for e in elem:
            indent(e, level+1)
        if not e.tail or not e.tail.strip():
            e.tail = i
    if level and (not elem.tail or not elem.tail.strip()):
        elem.tail = i

def CreateSoapMessage(action):

    envelope = """
        <soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope">
          <soap:Body>
            %s
          </soap:Body>
        </soap:Envelope>
        """ %(action)

    return(envelope)   

def SendHTTP(httpmessage):
    blen = len(httpmessage)
    requestor = httplib.HTTP('localhost', 8080); 
    requestor.putrequest('POST', '/Test_Shakeel/Service.asmx','HTTP/1.1')
    requestor.putheader('Host', 'localhost')
    requestor.putheader('Content-Type', 'application/soap+xml; charset=utf-8')
    requestor.putheader('Content-Length', str(blen))
    requestor.endheaders()
    requestor.send(httpmessage)
    (status_code, message, reply_headers) = requestor.getreply()
    reply_body = requestor.getfile().read()
    return reply_body

class Client:

    def pythonlogger(self,level,message):
        if level == "info":
            logger.info(message)
        if level == "warn":
            logger.warn(message)
        if level == "error":
            logger.error(message)
        return

    def Testing (self,first,second):
        #wylessclient = WylessClient()
        action = """<Testing xmlns="http://tempuri.org">
                <a>%s</a>
                <b>%s</b>
            </Testing>""" %(first,second)
        httpmessage = CreateSoapMessage(action)
        print httpmessage
        reply_body = SendHTTP(httpmessage)
        print reply_body
        # Get response from server and create an elementtree
        xmlin = ET.XML(reply_body)
        results = xmlin.find(".//http://localhost:8080}TestingResult")
        token = results.text
        return token

client1 = Client()
retvalue = client1.Testing('first','second')

 Exception with output is shown below.

 <soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope">
          <soap:Body>
            <Testing xmlns="http://tempuri.org">
                <a>first</a>
                <b>second</b>
            </Testing>
          </soap:Body>
        </soap:Envelope>
       
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"><soap:Body><soap:Fault><soap:Code><soap:Value>soap:Sender</soap:Value></soap:Code><soap:Reason><soap:Text xml:lang="en">Unable to handle request without a valid action parameter. Please supply a valid soap action.</soap:Text></soap:Reason><soap:Detail /></soap:Fault></soap:Body></soap:Envelope>

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python25\WylessClient_Orignal.py", line 137, in <module>
    retvalue = client1.Testing('first','second')  File "C:\Python25\WylessClient_Orignal.py", line 84, in Testing
    retvalue = client1.Testing('first','second')  File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\elementtree\ElementTree.py", line 327, in find
    return ElementPath.find(self, path)
  File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\elementtree\ElementPath.py", line 183, in find
    return _compile(path).find(element)
  File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\elementtree\ElementPath.py", line 173, in _compile
    p = Path(path)
  File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\elementtree\ElementPath.py", line 90, in __init__
    "expected path separator (%s)" % (op or tag)
SyntaxError: expected path separator (:)

Thanks a lot.