Asynchronous tasks with celery

Demo made with zeep as soap client and celery to manage the request asynchronously Add a mock-server for soap endpoint

Installation

Create virtual environments

 python -m venv env

Activate virtual environment

source env/bin/activate 

Install packages with pip

pip install -r requirements.txt

Install dependencies wiremock + redis

docker-compose up -d

[Mock server] Prerequisite

Import packed project from soap-ui/test-soap-soapui-project.xml.zip

https://support.smartbear.com/readyapi/docs/projects/import.html

Launch mock server https://www.soapui.org/docs/soap-mocking/service-mocking-overview/

Uncommment mock config/settings.ini and comment real api

### MOCK API (SOAP-UI)
wsdl_number_conversion_service = http://localhost:8088/NumberConversion.wso?WSDL

Usage

Run celery worker server

celery -A tasks worker --loglevel=INFO

Call the task to_words

$ python
>>> from tasks import convert_to_words
>>> result = convert_to_words.delay(56324)
>>> result.status
'SUCCESS'

Call the task to_dollars

$ python
>>> from tasks import convert_to_dollars
>>> result = convert_to_dollars.delay(56324)
>>> result.status
'SUCCESS'

See what happend in worker terminal

Documentation

• Soap client with zeep

• First steps with celery

• Next steps with celery

• Celery guide

• SOAP Service Mocking Overview

@Todo : try to replace the current soap mock server by wiremock

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35974249/using-wiremock-with-soap-web-services-in-java
• https://wiremock.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html
• https://dev.to/adevintaspain/testing-with-wiremock-docker-2gh9
• https://wiremock.org/docs/request-matching/
• https://www.taheramlaki.com/blog/articles/wiremock-stubbing-and-response-templating/