Objective: To get current oil price in Thailand via SOAP and response in JSON. prerequisite: Python 3.4, flask, flask-cors, suds-jurko, xmltodict

Simple soap client and simple server via flask

#!/usr/bin/python3

from flask import Flask
from flask import request, jsonify
from flask.ext.cors import CORS
from suds.client import Client
import xmltodict

app = Flask(__name__)
cors = CORS(app)

@app.route("/apis/get-oil-price" , methods=['POST'])
def get_oil_price():
	# Get variable from http POST
	date_string = str(request.form['date'])
	date_string = date_string.split('-')
	day = date_string[2]
	month = date_string[1]
	year = date_string[0]
	# Get SOAP Service via suds
	url = 'http://www.pttplc.com/webservice/pttinfo.asmx?WSDL'
	client = Client(url)
	# Execute GetOilPrice method of SOAP
	xml = client.service.GetOilPrice("EN", day, month, year)
	# Convert XML to dict
	res_dict = xmltodict.parse(xml)
	result = {}
	result['result'] = res_dict['PTT_DS']['DataAccess']
	# Convert dict to JSON
	return jsonify(**result)

@app.route("/apis/current-oil-price" , methods=['GET'])
def oil_current_price():
	# Get SOAP Service via suds
	url = 'http://www.pttplc.com/webservice/pttinfo.asmx?WSDL'
	client = Client(url)
	# Execute CurrentOilPrice method of SOAP
	xml = client.service.CurrentOilPrice("EN")
	# Convert XML to dict
	res_dict = xmltodict.parse(xml)
	result = {}
	result['result'] = res_dict['PTT_DS']['DataAccess']
	# Convert dict to JSON
	return jsonify(**result)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    app.run(host='0.0.0.0')

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