Hello,
The protein data bank webservice that I commonly use updated their wsdl recently, and when attempting to construct a suds.client.Client(url) object for the service I was continually getting the following error: ERROR: An unexpected error occurred while tokenizing input The following traceback may be corrupted or invalid The error message is: ('EOF in multi-line statement', (129, 0))
followed by a large traceback that ultimately failed in the xml.sax.expatreader module as shown below: SAXParseException: /var/folders/aS/aScvrYapHoCwNJHk1sw9LE+++TI/-Tmp-/suds/suds-649682136.http:10:2: mismatched tag
I was getting a similar error with several other web services that had recently modified their wsdls so I removed all of the files in the suds tmp folder: /var/folders/aS/aScvrYapHoCwNJHk1sw9LE+++TI/-Tmp-/suds (this is the path selected by suds on my mac running OS X 10.5.8)
After removing these tmp files, everything worked fine and I was able to construct the suds.client.Client instances without issues.
This is the version of suds that I'm using (via macports): ==================================== py25-suds @0.3.6 (python, devel, net)
Description: Suds is a lightweight SOAP python client for consuming Web Services. Homepage: https://fedorahosted.org/suds/
Build Dependencies: py25-setuptools Library Dependencies: python25 Platforms: darwin License: unknown Maintainers: mmoll@macports.org, openmaintainer@macports.org ====================================
one of the SOAP services I was accessing: http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/services/pdbws?wsdl
Basically, I resolved my problem already, but I was wondering why suds was using stale information in its tmp directory instead of building the Clients from scratch. Is this an error with suds not removing stale cache files? I can easily clear this directory every time I want to construct a new Client to guarantee that I won't run into this issue again, but is this a good idea?
Thanks, Drew