ebms-adapter-client 0.2.0

Python client for the ebms-core (eluinstra/ebms-core) REST API.

ebms-adapter-client

A minimal Python client for the REST API exposed by eluinstra/ebms-core (branch ebms-core-2.20.x), an ebMS (Electronic Business Messaging Service) adapter/core used to send and receive ebMS messages between trading partners.

[!NOTE] This package only talks to ebms-core's HTTP/JSON REST API — it doesn't implement ebMS/SOAP itself.

Endpoint coverage

ebms-core mounts its REST API at {base_url}/service/rest/v19/... (see EmbeddedWebConfig.java/Start.java in the sibling ebms-admin repo, which is what actually deploys ebms-core). Four JSON resource groups are covered:

• /cpas — Collaboration Protocol Agreement (CPA) management
• /urlMappings — URL mapping management
• /certificateMappings — certificate mapping management
• /ebms — message submission, retrieval, status, and event polling

The MTOM/multipart variants (POST /ebms/messages/mtom, GET /ebms/messages/mtom/{messageId}) are intentionally not implemented — the JSON DataSource model (Base64-encoded content) covers attachments for the plain JSON endpoints.

Installation

pip install ebms-adapter-client

Usage

from ebms_adapter_client import (
    DataSource,
    EbmsAdapterClient,
    EbmsAdapterClientConfig,
    MessageRequest,
    MessageRequestProperties,
)

config = EbmsAdapterClientConfig(
    base_url="http://localhost:8080",
    username="user", # omit if the server runs without --authentication
    password="pass",
)

with EbmsAdapterClient(config) as client:
    message_id = client.send_message(
        MessageRequest(
            properties=MessageRequestProperties(
                cpa_id="cpa-1",
                from_party_id="party-a",
                service="my-service",
                action="my-action",
            ),
            data_sources=[
                DataSource(content_type="application/pdf", content=b"...", name="letter.pdf"),
            ],
        )
    )

    status = client.get_message_status(message_id)

Configuration

EbmsAdapterClientConfig builds the full API base URL as {base_url}{service_path}{api_path}, defaulting to /service + /rest/v19 to match ebms-admin's default wiring. Override service_path/api_path if a reverse proxy changes that layout.

Auth

• No credentials (username=None) → no Authorization header is sent, matching a server started without --authentication.
• username/password set → HTTP Basic Auth, matching a server started with --authentication (without --clientAuthentication).
• Mutual TLS (--authentication --ssl --clientAuthentication) is not wired up yet; pass a preconfigured httpx.Client (with cert=) via the http_client constructor argument if needed.

Error handling

All non-2xx responses raise a subclass of EbmsAdapterError (ebms_adapter_client.exceptions):

• EbmsNotFoundError — HTTP 404
• EbmsBadRequestError — HTTP 400 (message text carries the server's error)
• EbmsServerError — HTTP 5xx
• EbmsConnectionError — the server could not be reached at all

Development

uv sync --all-groups
uv run pytest
uv run ruff check .
uv run ruff format --check .
uv run mypy src

See CONTRIBUTING.md for more.