Non-XML Python SUDS Return Type

Question

I work with a somewhat non-standard SOAP web service. Most web service calls return standard SOAP XML, as you would expect, but one call, in particular, returns a JSON string. This hides the client-side XML parser.

My question is: is there a way to specify the return type on a specific web method in SUDS so that it does not try to run it through the xml parser? I just need a raw JSON response.

Answer 1

I would use the Python JSON encoder to check first if it is JSON before submitting it to the XML parser.

try: json.loads(json_to_test) except ValueError: print "Invalid json"