rpclib 2.2.0-alpha

A transport and architecture agnostic rpc (de)serialization library that focuses on making small, rpc-oriented messaging work.

This is a simple, easily extendible rpc library that provides several useful tools for creating and publishing web services in python. This package features on-demand wsdl generation for the published services, a wsgi-compliant web application, support for complex class structures, binary attachments, and a simple framework for creating additional serialization mechanisms.

This project uses lxml as it’s XML API, providing full namespace support.

Changelog

rpclib-2.2.0-alpha

• The serialization / deserialization logic was redesigned. Now most of the serialization-related logic is under the responsibility of the ProtocolBase children.

• Interface generation logic was redesigned. The WSDL logic is separated to XmlSchema and Wsdl11 classes. ‘add_to_schema’ calls were renamed to just ‘add’ and were moved inside rpclib.interface.xml_schema package.

• Interface and Protocol assignment of an rpclib application is now more explicit. Both are also configurable during instantion. This doesn’t mean there’s much to configure :)

• WS-I Conformance is back!. See https://github.com/arskom/rpclib/blob/master/src/rpclib/test/interop/wsi-report-rpclib.xml for the latest conformance report.

• Numeric types now support range restrictions. e.g. Integer(ge=0) will only accept positive integers.

• Any -> AnyXml, AnyAsDict -> AnyDict. AnyAsDict is not the child of the AnyXml anymore.

• rpclib.model.exception -> rpclib.model.fault.

rpclib-2.1.0-alpha

• The method dispatch logic was rewritten: It’s now possible for the protocols to override how method request strings are matched to methods definitions.

• Unsigned integer primitives were added.

• ZeroMQ client was fixed.

• Header confusion in native http soap client was fixed.

• Grouped transport-specific context information under ctx.transport attribute.

• Added a self reference mechanism.

rpclib-2.0.10-alpha

• The inclusion of base xml schemas were made optional.

• WSDL: Fix out header being the same as in header.

• Added type checking to outgoing Integer types. it’s not handled as nicely as it should be.

• Fixed the case where changing the _in_message tag name of the method prevented it from being called.

• SOAP/WSDL: Added support for multiple {in,out}_header objects.

• Correct some bugs with the XMLAttribute model

rpclib-2.0.9-alpha

• Added inheritance support to rpclib.model.table.TableSerializer.

rpclib-2.0.8-alpha

• The NullServer now also returns context with the return object to have it survive past user-defined method return.

rpclib-2.0.7-alpha

• More tests are migrated to the new api.

• Function identifier strings are no more created directly from the function object itself. Function’s key in the class definition is used as default instead.

• Base xml schemas are no longer imported.

rpclib-2.0.6-alpha

• Added rpclib.server.null.NullServer, which is a server class with a client interface that attempts to do no (de)serialization at all. It’s intended to be used in tests.

rpclib-2.0.5-alpha

• Add late mapping support to sqlalchemy table serializer.

rpclib-2.0.4-alpha

• Add preliminary support for a sqlalchemy-0.7-compatible serializer.

rpclib-2.0.3-alpha

• Migrate the HttpRpc serializer to the new internal api.

rpclib-2.0.2-alpha

• SimpleType -> SimpleModel

• Small bugfixes.

rpclib-2.0.1-alpha

• EventManager now uses ordered sets instead of normal sets to store event handlers.

• Implemented sort_wsdl, a small hack to sort wsdl output in order to ease debugging.

rpclib-2.0.0-alpha

• Implemented EventManager and replaced hook calls with events.

• The rpc decorator now produces static methods. The methods still get an implicit first argument that holds the service contexts. It’s an instance of the MethodContext class, and not the ServiceBase (formerly DefinitionBase) class.

• The new srpc decorator doesn’t force the methods to have an implicit first argument.

• Fixed fault namespace resolution.

• Moved xml constants to rpclib.const.xml_ns

• The following changes to soaplib were ported to rpclib’s SOAP/WSDL parts:

  • duration object is now compatible with Python’s native timedelta.

  • WSDL: Support for multiple <service> tags in the wsdl (one for each class in the application)

  • WSDL: Support for multiple <portType> tags and multiple ports.

  • WSDL: Support for enumerating exceptions a method can throw was added.

  • SOAP: Exceptions got some love to be more standards-compliant.

  • SOAP: Xml attribute support

• Moved all modules with packagename.base to packagename._base.

• Renamed classes to have module name as a prefix:

  • rpclib.client._base.Base -> rpclib.client._base.ClientBase

  • rpclib.model._base.Base -> rpclib.model._base.ModelBase

  • rpclib.protocol._base.Base -> rpclib.protocol._base.ProtocolBase

  • rpclib.server._base.Base -> rpclib.server._base.ServerBase

  • rpclic.service.DefinitionBase -> rpclib.service.ServiceBase

  • rpclib.server.wsgi.Application -> rpclib.server.wsgi.WsgiApplication

• Moved some classes and modules around: * rpclib.model.clazz -> rpclib.model.complex * rpclib.model.complex.ClassSerializer -> rpclib.model.complex.ComplexModel * rpclib.Application -> rpclib.application.Application * rpclib.service.rpc, srpc -> rpclib.decorator.rpc, srpc

soaplib-3.x -> rpclib-1.1.1-alpha

• Soaplib is now also protocol agnostic. As it now supports protocols other than soap (like Rest-minus-the-verbs HttpRpc), it’s renamed to rpclib. This also means soaplib can now support multiple versions of soap and wsdl standards.

• Mention of xml and soap removed from public api where it’s not directly related to soap or xml. (e.g. a hook rename: on_method_exception_xml -> on_method_exception_doc)

• Protocol serializers now return iterables instead of complete messages. This is a first step towards eliminating the need to have the whole message in memory during processing.

soaplib-2.x

• This release transformed soaplib from a soap server that exclusively supported http to a soap serialization/deserialization library that is architecture and transport agnostic.

• Hard dependency on WSGI removed.

• Sphinx docs with working examples: http://arskom.github.com/soaplib/2_0/

• Serializers renamed to Models.

• Standalone xsd generation for ClassSerializer objects has been added. This allows soaplib to be used to define generic XML schemas, without SOAP artifacts.

• Annotation Tags for primitive Models has been added.

• The soaplib client has been re-written after having been dropped from recent releases. It follows the suds API but is based on lxml for better performance. WARNING: the soaplib client is not well-tested and future support is tentative and dependent on community response.

• 0mq support added.

• Twisted supported via WSGI wrappers.

• Increased test coverage for soaplib and supported servers

soaplib-1.0

• Standards-compliant Soap Faults

• Allow multiple return values and return types

soaplib-0.9.4

• pritimitive.Array -> clazz.Array

• Support for SimpleType restrictions (pattern, length, etc.)

soaplib-0.9.3

• Soap header support

• Tried the WS-I Test first time. Many bug fixes.

soaplib-0.9.2

• Support for inheritance.

soaplib-0.9.1

• Support for publishing multiple service classes.

soaplib-0.9

• Soap server logic almost completely rewritten.

• Soap client removed in favor of suds.

• Object definition api no longer needs a class types: under class definition.

• XML Schema validation is supported.

• Support for publishing multiple namespaces. (multiple <schema> tags in the wsdl)

• Support for enumerations.

• Application and Service Definition are separated. Application is instantiated on server start, and Service Definition is instantiated for each new request.

• @soapmethod -> @rpc

soaplib-0.8

• Switched to lxml for proper xml namespace support.