.. _examples:

********
Examples
********

A detailed, albeit contrived, example of how to use PyXB is in
:ref:`pyxbgen`.

Multiple real-world XML and web service examples of varying complexity are
provided in the :file:`examples` subdirectories of the PyXB distribution and of the
various bundles.  Some are WSDL services, and others are simply XMLSchema
documents.  Often there are a couple trivial programs that show how the
bindings are used.  The script :file:`test.sh` in each directory can be used
to generate the bindings and run the programs in a single step.

See the :file:`README.txt` file in each example subdirectory for more
information.

For ...
 - REST-style interactions, see :ref:`ex_dictionary`, :ref:`ex_ndfd`, and :ref:`thirty_sec_example`
 - SOAP interactions, see :ref:`ex_weather`, :ref:`ex_ndfd`, and :ref:`ex_geocoder`
 - Customizing a generated binding, see :ref:`ex_tmsxtvd`
 - Using a SAX parser, see :ref:`ex_tmsxtvd`

You may also want to look at some of the unit tests for other ideas.

.. _ex_dictionary:

Dictionary (Aonaware)
=====================

The `Dictionary web service at Aonaware <http://www.aonaware.com/services.htm>`_.

The example :file:`define.py` looks up a word in all available dictionaries:

.. literalinclude:: ../examples/dictionary/define.py

The example :file:`showdict.py` lists the available dictionaries:

.. literalinclude:: ../examples/dictionary/showdict.py

Sorry, no automatic generation of classes corresponding to the WSDL
operations.  Next release, maybe.

.. _ex_weather:

Simple Weather (CDyne)
======================

A `free weather service <http://ws.cdyne.com/WeatherWS/Weather.asmx>`_.
The REST interface was demonstrated as the :ref:`thirty_sec_example`.  A
SOAP interface example is in ``client.py``:

.. literalinclude:: ../examples/weather/client.py

Note the various misspellings in the schema (e.g., "Desciption").  Also, be
aware that the weather information in this service does not get updated
often, and sometimes fails to provide valid dates.  Try various zip codes;
usually you can find one that works.

.. _ex_ndfd:

Professional Weather (National Digital Forecast Data)
=====================================================

Interact with the `National Digital Forecast Database
<http://www.nws.noaa.gov/xml>`_.

Use the :file:`genbindings.sh` script to retrieve the schema for Digital
Weather Markup Language and generate the bindings.  Note that the schema has
two levels of ``include`` directives, which PyXB follows.

The examples for this service are too long to include into the web
documentation.  :file:`forecast.py` uses the REST interface to get the
forecast temperature data for two locations, and print it in several ways.
:file:`latlon.py` does something similar but for a latitude/longitude pair,
using SOAP, and requesting more data.

.. _ex_tmsxtvd:

Television Schedules (Tribune Media Services)
=============================================

A commercial service for `television listings
<http://www.tribunemediaservices.com/product-and-services/television/services/>`_.
Only one sample document is available for testing; it is retrieved using
:file:`genbindings.sh`.  The :file:`dumpsample.py` demonstrates extending a
binding to add a custom method, and parsing content with both DOM and SAX.
It also provides timing information; the document is about 200KB, and takes
several seconds to parse.

.. literalinclude:: ../examples/tmsxtvd/dumpsample.py

.. _ex_geocoder:

Address-To-Latitude/Longitude (http://geocoder.us)
=====================================================

This service provides the latitude and longitude for free-form US addresses.
It also demonstrates several of the pitfalls of using WSDL, which has a very
lax concept of schemas, with a system that expects to operate on validatable
documents.  The following changes were made to make the service easier to
work with:

 - Change the element form default to ``qualified``.  This is necessary
   because there is a non-absent target namespace in the schema, and the
   documents returned from the service set it as the default namespace.
   This causes the XML engine to associate that namespace with
   locally-scoped elements like "number", while the original ``unqualified``
   form default caused the schema to record them with no namespace.
 - Set ``minOccurs`` on all the elements, since some are missing from some
   responses
 - Set ``nillable`` on all elements that are observed to use ``xsi:nil="true"`` in
   response documents
 - Provide types and elements corresponding to the request and response
   messages, since PyXB's WSDL support does not currently generate them from
   the operation messages.

:file:`genbindings.sh` applies changes to the WSDL after retrieving it and
prior to generating the bindings.

A second complication is the need to burrow down through wildcard elements
in the binding instance generated from the SOAP response.  This is the
consequence of an `error in the WSDL specification
<http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/soapbuilders/message/5879>`_, which was
discovered after too many tools had already worked around it.  Currently,
PyXB also requires that you work around it manually, although a
customization of the relevant SOAP encoding class could make it unnecessary.

.. literalinclude:: ../examples/geocoder/client.py

.. _ex_opengis:

OpenGIS (http://www.opengeospatial.org)
=======================================

See the directory ``examples/OpenGIS`` in the distribution.

