[Fedora-suds-list] Stale suds cache causing wsdl parser errors

[Matt C]

I run into this as well. Passing "cache = None" into the Client()
constructor should help you work around the issue.
-Matt

On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Drew Bryant <drew.h.bryant at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 at macports.org, openmaintainer at 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
>
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