Using Python and SOAPpy with iControl

We don't officially support Python as a dev language but I do know that several users out there are using it. One thing that I've heard is that SOAPpy doesn't support 2-dimensional arrays which we use in a large majority of our methods.

 

 

As for your issue, since I don't know Python, I'm going solely by the SOAP trace. In your request, the signature for get_external_calss_file_name is the following

 

 

String[] LocalLB::Class::get_external_class_file_name(
    in String[] class_names
);

 

 

Your code:

 

 

print server.get_external_class_file_name(
   SOAPpy.NameType('', 'class_names', 0,  {'items': ['myList']})
)

 

 

resulted in this message

 

 

  xmlns:ns1="urn:iControl:LocalLB/Class" SOAP-ENC:root="1">
      items="">
  

 

 

The class_names parameter needs to be a single dimentional array of type string with the requested class names passed in the array. Your python code is making the class_names parameter a single type with empty value. It should result in something like this:

 

 

  xmlns:ns1="urn:iControl:LocalLB/Class" SOAP-ENC:root="1">
      SOAP-ENC:arrayType="SOAP-ENC:Array[1]">
    class_name_goes_here
  

 

 

-Joe