python soap zeep module get result

Question

I'm getting a result from a SOAP API like that:

client = zeep.Client(wsdl=self.wsdl, transport=transport)
auth_header = lb.E("authenticate", self.login())
res  = client.service.GetHouseProfile(region_id, page_number, reporting_period_id, _soapheaders=[auth_header])

now I need to parse res and to get a result.

>>> dir(res)
['__class__', '__contains__', '__deepcopy__', '__delattr__', '__delitem__', '__dict__', '__doc__', '__eq__', '__format__', '__getattribute__', '__getitem__', '__hash__', '__init__', '__iter__', '__len__', '__module__', '__new__', '__reduce__', '__reduce_ex__', '__repr__', '__setattr__', '__setitem__', '__sizeof__', '__str__', '__subclasshook__', '__values__', '__weakref__', '_xsd_type']
>>> type(res)
<class 'zeep.objects.GetHouseProfileSFResponse'>
>>> print(res.__str__()[0:100])
{
    'data': {
        'item': [
            {
                'house_id': 6465882L,

How to get a certain element from res?

So I found the way. Looks like not a standard decision but it works:

>>> res.__values__.get("data").__values__.get("item")[6].__values__.keys()
[u'house_id', u'house_profile_data', u'full_address', u'stage', u'state', u'emergency_date', u'emergency_number', u'emergency_reason', u'emergency_after', u'inn', u'files_info']

Answer 1

The __values__ attribute is a private implementation detail and you shouldn't really use it. You should be able to just do response.data.item[0].house_id or response['data']['item'][0]['house_id'].

See https://github.com/mvantellingen/python-zeep/blob/master/src/zeep/xsd/valueobjects.py#L32 for the code used.

Cheers, Michael (author of zeep)

Answer 2

import zeep
#import json

a = zeep.helpers.serialize_object(res)

#json_object_a = json.loads(json.dumps(a))

print a['data']['item'][0]['house_id']