# Source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17581731/parsing-suds-soap-complex-data-type-into-python-dict
def basic_sobject_to_dict(obj):
"""Converts suds object to dict very quickly.
Does not serialize date time or normalize key case.
:param obj: suds object
:return: dict object
"""
if not hasattr(obj, '__keylist__'):
return obj
data = {}
fields = obj.__keylist__
for field in fields:
val = getattr(obj, field)
if isinstance(val, list):
data[field] = []
for item in val:
data[field].append(basic_sobject_to_dict(item))
else:
data[field] = basic_sobject_to_dict(val)
return data
def sobject_to_dict(obj, key_to_lower=False, json_serialize=False):
"""
Converts a suds object to a dict.
:param json_serialize: If set, changes date and time types to iso string.
:param key_to_lower: If set, changes index key name to lower case.
:param obj: suds object
:return: dict object
"""
import datetime
if not hasattr(obj, '__keylist__'):
if json_serialize and isinstance(obj, (datetime.datetime, datetime.time, datetime.date)):
return obj.isoformat()
else:
return obj
data = {}
fields = obj.__keylist__
for field in fields:
val = getattr(obj, field)
if key_to_lower:
field = field.lower()
if isinstance(val, list):
data[field] = []
for item in val:
data[field].append(sobject_to_dict(item, json_serialize=json_serialize))
else:
data[field] = sobject_to_dict(val, json_serialize=json_serialize)
return data
def sobject_to_json(obj, key_to_lower=False):
"""
Converts a suds object to json.
:param obj: suds object
:param key_to_lower: If set, changes index key name to lower case.
:return: json object
"""
import json
data = sobject_to_dict(obj, key_to_lower=key_to_lower, json_serialize=True)
return json.dumps(data)