[Pywebsvcs-talk] ZSI and SOAPpy problems with WSDL and date

[Fabio S. <fa...@fa...>]

Sorry if this post is stupid, but I'm a python newbie. I would like to do 
some experiments with webservices and I try to consume a web service that 
return an italian fiscal code (a simple string). I have to send some 
strings and a date (birth date).
This is my first python code with ZSI:

#wsdlURL = "http://www.pinellus.com/cfc/Cod_fiscale.cfc?wsdl";
import sys
import datetime

from ZSI import TC
from ZSI import ServiceProxy

cognome = 'Marco'
nome = 'Rossi'
sesso = 'M'
comune = 'Milano'
provincia = 'MI'
nascita = datetime.date(1950,12,22)
soapNascita = TC.gDate(nascita)

service = ServiceProxy('http://www.pinellus.com/cfc/Cod_fiscale.cfc?wsdl')
codice_fiscale =
service.makecod(cognome,nome,sesso,comune,provincia,soapNascita)
print codice_fiscale

The error is:
File "D:\MySoft\Python\codicefiscale\cf.py", line 16, in ?
soapNascita = TC.gDate(nascita)
File "C:\PROGRA~1\Python23\Lib\site-packages\ZSI\TC.py", line 65, in
__init__
i = self.pname.find(':')
AttributeError: 'datetime.date' object has no attribute 'find'

I tried everything, also to pass the date in this way:
nascita = datetime.date(1950,12,22).timetuple()[:9]
but without success.

Then I switch to SOAPpy and I rewrote the script in this way:
#wsdlURL = "http://www.pinellus.com/cfc/Cod_fiscale.cfc?wsdl";

import datetime
import SOAPpy

def codiceFiscale(cognome, nome, sesso, comune, provincia, nascita, debug=0):
    if debug:
        return 'TESTTESTTESTTEST'

    service = SOAPpy.SOAPProxy("http://www.pinellus.com/cfc/Cod_fiscale.cfc")

    codice_fiscale = 
service.makecod(cognome,nome,sesso,comune,provincia,nascita)
    return codice_fiscale


nascita = datetime.date(1950,12,22)

cf = codiceFiscale('Rossi','Marco','M','Milano','MI',nascita)
print cf


No way out, the webservice is called but the return value is an exception:

<Fault ns1:Server.userException: java.lang.NumberFormatException: Invalid 
date/time: {u'stackTrace': 'java.lang.NumberFormatException: Invalid 
date/time\r\n\tat org.apache.axis.encoding.ser.SimpleDeserializer.onEndElement
.....

Could you point me in the right direction to solve this problem?
Which are the main difference between ZSI, and SOAPpy ?
Thanks in advance.

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