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as4

A Python library for building, parsing and answering AS4 messages, with the Peppol AS4 profile as its first profile.

Python package Python 3.11+

Features

  • One-Way/Push user messages: build, sign (RSA-SHA256, exc-c14n), gzip and encrypt (AES-128-GCM under RSA-OAEP) payloads as MIME attachments.
  • Receive side: verify the signature against a configurable trust policy, check coverage of eb:Messaging, the SOAP Body and every payload, decrypt, decompress within a size cap, and answer with a signed non-repudiation receipt or an ebMS error signal.
  • Sending side: verify the receipt that comes back, correlate it to the message and check the acknowledged digests against what was signed.
  • Peppol profile: SBDH envelope, originalSender/finalRecipient message properties, Peppol PKI trust anchors, PEPPOL:NOT_SERVICED feedback.
  • AS4SendingExchange/AS4ReceivingExchange model the lifecycle of one message and serialise to JSON, without their private key, so a receipt can be verified after a restart.

Not implemented: One-Way/Pull, Two-Way MEPs, duplicate detection, retries and MissingReceipt reporting. These belong to the calling application or to a later release.

Installation

pip install as4

Or from source:

git clone https://github.com/dbkosky/as4.git
cd as4
pip install -e ".[test]"

Supported surface

as4 and as4.peppol are the public API. Everything under as4.core, as4.models and as4.utils is internal and may move without notice.

Quick start

examples/build_peppol_message.py runs the whole round trip with the bundled test credentials.

Building a Peppol AS4 message

from as4.peppol import build_peppol_message, create_peppol_external_party, create_peppol_internal_party

local_party = create_peppol_internal_party(party_id="PTE000001", certificate=my_certificate, private_key=my_key)
remote_party = create_peppol_external_party(party_id="PTE000002", certificate=their_certificate)

message = build_peppol_message(
    payload=invoice_xml_bytes,
    local_party=local_party,
    remote_party=remote_party,
    sender="9932:9999999999",
    recipient="9932:1111111111",
    sender_country_id="GB",
    document_type_identifier_scheme="busdox-docid-qns",
    document_type_identifier_value="urn:oasis:names:specification:ubl:schema:xsd:Invoice-2::Invoice##...::2.1",
    process_identifier="urn:fdc:peppol.eu:2017:poacc:billing:01:1.0",
)
body, boundary = message.get_request_data()
headers = message.get_http_headers(boundary)
# POST body with headers to the remote access point

Parsing a Peppol AS4 message

from as4.peppol import PEPPOL_PROD_SECURITY_POLICY, parse_peppol_message

receiving = parse_peppol_message(
    request_headers=request.headers,
    request_body=request.body,
    local_party=local_party,
    security_policy=PEPPOL_PROD_SECURITY_POLICY,
)
headers, signal = receiving.build_signal()
# respond with signal and headers, whether or not receiving.successful
if receiving.successful:
    payload = next(iter(receiving.message.decrypted_data.values()))

PEPPOL_TEST_SECURITY_POLICY trusts the Peppol test PKI. as4.pinned_certificates and as4.certificate_chain build a SecurityPolicy for other trust arrangements.

Verifying the receipt

from as4.peppol import parse_peppol_receipt

receipt = parse_peppol_receipt(response_body, remote_party.credentials.certificate)
receipt.verify_non_repudiation(message.signed_references)

Running tests

./run_tests.sh

This runs black, mypy, flake8 and pytest, the same gate as CI.

Specifications

Licence

Apache 2.0, see LICENSE.txt.

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