Remote python function call with django webservice

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I am working on a django/python project. i want to create an api (webservices). What i want is to call a remote function from a python client. I was used to work with WSDL and WCF in ASP.Net. Is there something like this in django/python ? I started to work with djangorestframework but i do not think this is the right way. This framework allows me to put, read, insert or update objects in a database. I think REST is only dedicated to those operations. What i want is to call a remote function, without storing data on the server (this is just calculation).

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damores · Accepted Answer · 2016-10-21 16:29:11Z

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You don't have to strictly handle CRUD operations when using REST. In terms of technology, there's nothing stopping you from doing calculation with any method (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, etc). In terms of methodology, you could do a calculation using a GET request since GET is used to retrieve information, which is exactly what you're doing. You don't necessarily have to handle resources.

If you still don't feel comfortable with REST, you can always switch back to SOAP and WSDL, there's a nice SOAP library for python soaplib

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Bob5421 Over a year ago

Thanks. Is there a way to invoke soap functions from bash command line, without having to write a python client program ?

Bob5421 Over a year ago

I was thinking that CRUD was the definition of REST.

damores Over a year ago

More than CRUD, a REST API should be compliant to HTTP methods. So, in the case of a calculation, a GET method is appropriate since it is retrieving a resource (which is not necessarily a database record).

damores Over a year ago

About the command line, I'm not sure about it but you could give SOAP UI a go. It's a nice SOAP client

Mohammad Jafar Mashhadi Over a year ago

And just for sake of completeness, a really good SOAP consumer library is suds-jurko

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