brainstorming on suds + python-requests thinamabob, MIT-licensed

gistfile1.txt

from suds.transport import Transport, Reply
from suds.client import Client
import requests
from StringIO import StringIO

class RequestsTransport(Transport):

  def open(self, request):
    """ suds assumes urllib2 which doesn't have keepalives so things can go royally wrong if it doesn't
      read the entire request. Hence, read it all up and give a StringIO object instead.
      Error handling needed
    """
    verify_ssl = self.options.get("verify_ssl", True)
    r = requests.get(url=request.url, headers=request.headers, 
      verify=verify_ssl)
    return StringIO(r.content)

  def send(self, request):
    """ Just a naivistic suds.transport.Request->requests->suds.transport.Reply wrapper. This is
      missing proper error handling
    """
    verify_ssl = self.options.get("verify_ssl", True)
    r = requests.post(url=request.url, data=request.message, headers=request.headers,
      verify=verify_ssl)
    return Reply(code=r.status_code, headers=r.headers, message=r.content)


class RequestsClient(Client):
  def __init__(self, url, **kwargs):
    kwargs.setdefault("transport", RequestsTransport)
    Client.__init__(self, url, **kwargs)