[Fedora-suds-list] preserving space?

[Jeff Ortel]

Hey Brodie,

Well, what you're seeing is kind of intentional.  Since the early days, the suds sax 
parser has trimmed the text.  This comes from when the sax package was written and the XML 
documents used for testing were formatted and the leading and trailing newlines and 
whitespace was annoying and troublesome.  But, in the context of soap messages, trimming 
the text just causes problems (as you've noted).  Also, soap messages are rarely (probably 
never) formatted so there is really not benefit to trimming.

So, in r630, I discontinued trimming the text in the sax parser.  r630 has been released 
in 0.3.9 beta.

Thanks for bringing this to my attention.

Regards,

Jeff

On 12/22/2009 06:02 AM, Brodie Thiesfield wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> New to suds and I'm seeing some strange behaviour with whitespace only contents.
>
> I have an element being returned from the soap server that consists of
> just a single space.
>   <text>  </text>
>
> The WSDL defines this as:
>       <element name="text" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="0"
> maxOccurs="1" nillable="true"/>
>
> In the debug log I can see that the space has been returned by the
> server, although I don't understand any of the rest of the log (is
> there a way to log only the messages?)
>
> When accessing this element though, it has the value of None. i.e.
> this code appends 'None' to the string:
>          if part.text == None:
>              txn += "<None>";
>          else:
>              txn += part.text
>
> Surely this is not expected behaviour? Is there some setting that I am
> missing to prevent this? Is there a way to make it return the space?
>
> Regards,
> Brodie
>
> Note: Using suds 0.3.8 GA on Windows with python 2.6.4
>
> _______________________________________________
> fedora-suds-list mailing list
> fedora-suds-list at redhat.com
> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-suds-list

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: smime.p7s
Type: application/pkcs7-signature
Size: 5126 bytes
Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
URL: <http://listman.redhat.com/archives/fedora-suds-list/attachments/20091222/940ae184/attachment.p7s>