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Accessing a SOAP API?

mrgibbon — Thu, 23 Jun 2016 03:24:54 GMT

Hi All, Does anyone have a working example script or other method of getting Splunk to interact with a SOAP API?
There are plenty of REST examples, but not SOAP.

Thanks in advance.

Re: Accessing a SOAP API?

JasonParms — Thu, 23 Jun 2016 05:20:02 GMT

These links could be help you.

http://www.splunk.com/themes/splunk_com/img/assets/pdfs/education/SplunkDeploymentGuide2_1.pdf
http://dev.splunk.com/restapi

Re: Accessing a SOAP API?

richgalloway — Thu, 23 Jun 2016 13:29:55 GMT

I've written several python scripts that function as a SOAP client. I'm not allowed to share the code, but I can offer a few tips.
REST and SOAP clients are very similar. The key difference is SOAP always uses POST requests. The body of the request is the XML specified in the API. I use the httplib library, but some prefer urllib.

Re: Accessing a SOAP API?

mrgibbon — Wed, 21 Sep 2016 23:29:43 GMT

Hi Rich, I know you might not be able to share the exact code, but can you share an anonomised version of it?
Im still having issues with this. Thanks

Re: Accessing a SOAP API?

tdhoang — Thu, 06 Jul 2017 11:38:55 GMT

Hi guys, I am now also facing this problem too. do you have any ideas now?

Re: Accessing a SOAP API?

pongc — Thu, 10 Sep 2020 20:22:15 GMT

Posting here on what worked for me. In looking at https://wiki.python.org/moin/WebServices

1. ran pip2 install --user suds as the splunk user.

2. afterwards, copy ~/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/suds/ to $splunk_home/etc/apps/<my_app>/bin

3. if I now run a python script under $splunk_home/etc/apps/<my_app>/bin using the built in splunk python (ie /opt/splunk/bin/splunk cmd python), I can run these commands

>>> from suds.client import Client >>> client=Client("http://www.dneonline.com/calculator.asmx?WSDL") >>> print client Suds ( https://fedorahosted.org/suds/ ) version: 0.4 GA build: R699-20100913 Service ( Calculator ) tns="http://tempuri.org/" Prefixes (0) Ports (2): (CalculatorSoap) Methods (4): Add(xs:int intA, xs:int intB, ) Divide(xs:int intA, xs:int intB, ) Multiply(xs:int intA, xs:int intB, ) Subtract(xs:int intA, xs:int intB, ) Types (0): (CalculatorSoap12) Methods (4): Add(xs:int intA, xs:int intB, ) Divide(xs:int intA, xs:int intB, ) Multiply(xs:int intA, xs:int intB, ) Subtract(xs:int intA, xs:int intB, ) Types (0): >>> client.service.Add(5,6) 11

I could not get this to work with zeep though.