Free Web Services - Herong's Tutorial Examples - v2.13, by Herong Yang
Invoking WSDL Services with Zeep Library
This section provides a tutorial example on how to create a Zeep client object with a WSDL URL, access a given service, and invoke a given operation.
How to Invoke WSDL Service with Zeep Library? There are 4 main steps to invoke a WSDL service and call its operation:
1. Create a zeep.client.Client object with the URL of a given WSDL document:
from zeep import Client wsdl = "https://www.herongyang.com/Service/Hello_WSDL_11_SOAP.wsdl" client = Client(wsdl)
2. Create a zeep.proxy.ServiceProxy object by calling the client.bind(service, port) method with a given combination of service name and port name:
service = client.bind('helloService', 'helloPort')
3. Create a zeep.proxy.OperationProxy object by accessing the service[operation] list member with a given operation name:
operation = service['Hello']
4. Invoke the operation(arguments) with required arguments:
result = operation("Hello from client.")
Here is Python script example that performs these steps with a given WSDL 1.1 document:
#- WSDL_Service_Proxy.py
#- Copyright (c) 2019 HerongYang.com. All Rights Reserved.
#
from zeep import Client
wsdl = "https://www.herongyang.com/Service/Hello_WSDL_11_SOAP.wsdl"
client = Client(wsdl)
print(type(client))
service = client.bind('helloService', 'helloPort')
print(type(service))
operation = service['Hello']
print(type(operation))
result = operation("Hello from client.")
print(result);
Run the test script:
herong$ python3 WSDL_Service_Proxy.py
<class 'zeep.client.Client'>
<class 'zeep.proxy.ServiceProxy'>
<class 'zeep.proxy.OperationProxy'>
Hello from server - herongyang.com.
The test worked well. I got the result returned from the WSDL service provider.
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