Overview

Based on the original 'suds' project by Jeff Ortel (jortel at redhat dot com) hosted at 'http://fedorahosted.org/suds' and 'suds-jurko' by Jurko Gospodnetić ( jurko.gospodnetic@pke.hr ) hosted at https://bitbucket.org/jurko/suds.

"Suds" is a lightweight SOAP-based web service client for Python licensed under LGPL (see the LICENSE.txt file included in the distribution).

One major problem with suds is that it is slow. This is a fork of suds that tries to solve it by parse the xml returned with the fast lxml parser instead of the default suds implementation. It requires lxml to be installed.

I was initially inspired by http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22171100/python2-sax-parser-best-speed-and-performance-for-large-files.

Forked project information

• Project site - https://github.com/liboz/suds-lxml
• Official releases can be downloaded from:
  • PyPI - http://pypi.python.org/pypi/suds-lxml

Original suds Python library development project information

• Project site - http://fedorahosted.org/suds
• Documentation - http://fedorahosted.org/suds/wiki/Documentation
• Epydocs - http://jortel.fedorapeople.org/suds/doc

Standard Python installation.

Here are the basic instructions for 3 different installation methods:

1. Using pip
   • Have the pip package installed.
   • Run pip install suds-lxml.
2. Using easy-install
   • Have the setuptools package installed.
   • Run easy_install suds-lxml.
3. From sources
   • Unpack the source package somewhere.
   • Run python setup.py install from the source distribution's top level folder.

I attempt to give the same APIs to call webservices as the original suds, the only difference is what the calls themselves do. The python objects that are created are not the standard suds objects either and are just a simple dict like object.

Simple:

from suds.lxmlclient import Client
c = Client('https://www.yourwsdl.com?wsdl')

To Access to the original client:

from suds.lxmlclient import Client
c = Client('https://www.yourwsdl.com?wsdl')
original_client = c.suds_client

To convert the returned SoapObject to a dictionary (note that this isn't recursive):

from suds.lxmlclient import Client
c = Client('https://www.yourwsdl.com?wsdl')
result = c.service.test()
result.as_dict()

To accessing a property on a SoapObject:

from suds.lxmlclient import Client
c = Client('https://www.yourwsdl.com?wsdl')
result = c.service.test()
success = result.success

This project was started because I had to deal with large SOAP return envelopes and I wanted to use suds. However, suds was simply too slow.

Here are some initial benchmarks for just the parsing on a 30 MB return envelope. We take the average over 10 iterations:

suds-jurko baseline:` 18.1 seconds for deserialize/to_python`suds-lxml: 0.115s for lxml deserialize, 4.09s for to_python``

Or about 4 times faster.