How to Parse BPEL(Business Process Execution Language)Files Using Python

Published Apr 08, 2017

What is BPEL ?

BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) is an XML-based language that allows Web services in a service-oriented architecture (SOA) to interconnect and share data.
Programmers use BPEL to define how a business process that involves web services will be executed. BPEL messages are typically used to invoke remote services, orchestrate process execution and manage events and exceptions.

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What is Parsing ?

Parsing is extracting data in such a way so that we can make sense out of extracted data.

How to Parse BPEL File Using Python ?

For Parsing BPEL File,We will use Element-Tree XML API.This is sample source code which we will parse in next step.

Test.bpel

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> 

<!-- Employee -->

<process name="Employee" 
         targetNamespace="http://packtpub.com/service/employee/" 
         xmlns="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2003/03/business-process/"
         xmlns:emp="http://packtpub.com/service/employee/" >
   
   <partnerLinks>
      <partnerLink name="employeeTravelStatus" 
                   partnerLinkType="emp:employeeLT"
                   myRole="employeeTravelStatusService"/>

   </partnerLinks>

   <variables>
      <!-- input for this process -->      
      <variable name="EmployeeTravelStatusRequest" messageType="emp:EmployeeTravelStatusRequestMessage"/>
      <!-- output from the Employee Travel Status web service -->
      <variable name="EmployeeTravelStatusResponse" messageType="emp:EmployeeTravelStatusResponseMessage"/>
   </variables>

   <sequence>

      <!-- Receive the initial request for business travel from client -->
      <receive partnerLink="employeeTravelStatus" 
               portType="emp:EmployeeTravelStatusPT" 
               operation="EmployeeTravelStatus" 
               variable="EmployeeTravelStatusRequest"
               createInstance="yes" />

      <!-- Prepare the output -->
      <assign>
        <copy>
          <from>
            <travelClass xmlns="http://packtpub.com/service/employee/">Economy</travelClass>
          </from>
          <to variable="EmployeeTravelStatusResponse" part="travelClass"/>
        </copy>
      </assign>
      
      <!-- Send a response -->
      <reply partnerLink="employeeTravelStatus" 
             portType="emp:EmployeeTravelStatusPT" 
             operation="EmployeeTravelStatus" 
             variable="EmployeeTravelStatusResponse"/>
   </sequence>

</process>

Using Element-Tree Api,we will extract all the tags with namespace.

Parser.py

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

class Parsing():

  def __init__(self):
    pass
  def depthSearch(self,root):
    if root is None:
      return
    else:
      print(root.tag)
      for child in root:
        print(child.tag)
        self.depthSearch(child)
    return

  def bpelparsing(self,filename):
    tree = ET.parse(filename)
    root = tree.getroot()
    self.depthSearch(root)
    

if __name__ == "__main__":
  parse_ref = Parsing()
  parse_ref.bpelparsing("Test.bpel")
  pass