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Rich_W__77692
Cirrus
CirrusPython/BigSuds using local WSDLs?
Can BigSuds use a local copy of the WSDLs? I ask because sometimes I have to loop through literally 600+ devices and if I only had to parse the WSDLs once, that would speed things up a lot.
Thanks.
rjwiii
Serge_van_GindeNimbostratus
I don't understand why you need to parse the WSDL's if you are using bigduds?
Rich_W__77692Perhaps I mis-stated my question. I am not parsing the WSDLs. I know BigSuds does that for me. Currently, BigSuds pulls the WSDL set from the device being accessed and parses it. At times, I have to loop through 600+ devices. Waiting for BigSuds to grab the WSDL set from each device slows down the script's perfromace. If I could have a local set of WSDLs that BigSuds would only have to parse once, it would increase the script's performance. Am I making more sense? Thank you. rjwiii- Serge_van_Ginde
Ow, OK, now I see what you mean.
I know little about SOAP, so not sure, but I suppose this should be doable. If you are familiar with python and SOAP, you could have a look at the bigsuds lib, which is relatively small.
- Rich_W__77692I know enough about SOAP to rip my hair out in large chunks ... :) Perhaps this can be tossed back to the F5 BigSuds maintainer ... ?
- Serge_van_Ginde
Just had a quick look at the bigsuds source and it appears this is already possible!
just initialize your api as here:
api = bigsuds.BIGIP(hostname=bigip, username=user, password=password, cachedir=/tmp/)
(cachedir defaults to None; you can also enable debug=True)
- Rich_W__77692I looked at the code, too. I think the "cachedir" paramiter for cache'ing the WSDLs after they are downloaded from the device and NOT for accessing local copies of WSDLs ... :( What I would like to do is have a local copy of the WSDLs like the Ruby gem or the java libs ... Oh well ...
- Serge_van_GindeThe cache lifetime is hard coded to 1 day. There's nothing stopping you from patching that :-)
- Rich_W__77692I saw that ... I think it only caches it for the device you're accessing and will read from the cache if it exists. I want to be able to load the WSDLs once and plow through 600+ devices, I access devices running v9 and up. The WSDLs are backwords compatible with all version, so if I have the latest set of all the WSDLs, I'm all set. All I have to do is get the device's version and make the righrt calls ...