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Web Services Made Easy
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Introduction
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Web Services Made Easy (WSME) simplifies the writing of REST web services
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by providing simple yet powerful typing, removing the need to directly
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manipulate the request and the response objects.
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WSME can work standalone or on top of your favorite Python web
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(micro)framework, so you can use both your preferred way of routing your REST
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requests and most of the features of WSME that rely on the typing system like:
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- Alternate protocols, including those supporting batch-calls
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- Easy documentation through a Sphinx_ extension
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WSME is originally a rewrite of TGWebServices
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with a focus on extensibility, framework-independance and better type handling.
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How Easy ?
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~~~~~~~~~~
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Here is a standalone wsgi example::
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from wsme import WSRoot, expose
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class MyService(WSRoot):
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@expose(unicode, unicode) # First parameter is the return type,
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# then the function argument types
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def hello(self, who=u'World'):
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return u"Hello {0} !".format(who)
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ws = MyService(protocols=['restjson', 'restxml', 'soap'])
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application = ws.wsgiapp()
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With this published at the ``/ws`` path of your application, you can access
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your hello function in various protocols:
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.. list-table::
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:header-rows: 1
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* - URL
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- Returns
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* - ``http://<server>/ws/hello.json?who=you``
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- ``"Hello you !"``
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* - ``http://<server>/ws/hello.xml``
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- ``<result>Hello World !</result>``
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* - ``http://<server>/ws/api.wsdl``
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- A WSDL description for any SOAP client.
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Main features
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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- Very simple API.
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- Supports user-defined simple and complex types.
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- Multi-protocol : REST+Json, REST+XML, SOAP, ExtDirect and more to come.
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- Extensible : easy to add more protocols or more base types.
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- Framework independence : adapters are provided to easily integrate
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your API in any web framework, for example a wsgi container,
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Pecan_, Flask_, cornice_...
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- Very few runtime dependencies: webob, simplegeneric. Optionnaly lxml and
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simplejson if you need better performances.
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- Integration in `Sphinx`_ for making clean documentation with
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``wsmeext.sphinxext``.
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.. _Pecan: http://pecanpy.org/
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.. _Flask: http://flask.pocoo.org/
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.. _cornice: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/cornice
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Install
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~~~~~~~
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::
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pip install WSME
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or, if you do not have pip on your system or virtualenv
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::
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easy_install WSME
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Changes
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- Read the `Changelog`_
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Getting Help
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~~~~~~~~~~~~
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- Read the `WSME Documentation`_.
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- Questions about WSME should go to the `python-wsme mailinglist`_.
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Contribute
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* Documentation: http://packages.python.org/WSME/
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* Source: http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/wsme
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* Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/wsme/+bugs
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* Code review: https://review.openstack.org/#/q/project:openstack/wsme,n,z
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.. _Changelog: http://packages.python.org/WSME/changes.html
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.. _python-wsme mailinglist: http://groups.google.com/group/python-wsme
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.. _WSME Documentation: http://packages.python.org/WSME/
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.. _WSME issue tracker: https://bugs.launchpad.net/wsme/+bugs
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.. _Sphinx: http://sphinx.pocoo.org/
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