Hi, first of all, thanks a lot for developing this fine library. It's working as promised and saving me a lot of time. I'm having this small issue though but I hope you can throw me some pointer to fix it.

I'm trying to update some custom object but I'm keep getting the uninformative 'INVALID_TYPE: Must send a concrete entity type.' error.

First the explanation: I have this custom object Curso__c that has an attribute Dias_netos__c. According to my enterprise.wsdl it's defined as <element name="Dias_netos__c" nillable="true" minOccurs="0" type="xsd:double"/>

I'm generating the object, populating it with the desired Id and adding the Dias_netos__c attribute but when I fire the update, I always get the mentioned error. I tried making Dias_netos__c a float type and I also submitted a list in the update too (instead of a single object) but to no avail.

Here's a full example (console output from ipython):

In [2]: so = x.h.generateObject('Curso__c')

In [3]: so Out[3]: (sObject){ fieldsToNull[] = <empty> Id = None type = "Curso__c" }

In [4]: so.Id = "a015000000UgzNbAAJ"

In [5]: so Out[5]: (sObject){ fieldsToNull[] = <empty> Id = "a015000000UgzNbAAJ" type = "Curso__c" }

In [6]: so.Dias_netos__c = 4

In [7]: so Out[7]: (sObject){ fieldsToNull[] = <empty> Id = "a015000000UgzNbAAJ" type = "Curso__c" Dias_netos__c = 4 }

In [9]: x.h.update([so]) 12:44:21,638 ERROR [suds.client] [MainThread] <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:ns0="urn:enterprise.soap.sforce.com" xmlns:ns1="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/&quot; xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance&quot; xmlns:tns="urn:enterprise.soap.sforce.com" xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"&gt; <SOAP-ENV:Header> <tns:SessionHeader> <tns:sessionId>00D500000007iS2!ARkAQNaJ39HmzVnJjBwy7Ld0iSkZz4RxB3UNzQ1YY8QO7ev0XAK2S7J2WHnzLxEuuoiUZQUFeAGzl9_kR4TRIiZtuf9snoIp</tns:sessionId> </tns:SessionHeader> </SOAP-ENV:Header> <ns1:Body> <ns0:update> <sObjects xsi:type="ens:Curso__c"> <Id>a015000000UgzNbAAJ</Id> <Dias_netos__c>4</Dias_netos__c> </sObjects> </ns0:update> </ns1:Body>

</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

WebFault Traceback (most recent call last)

/home/mariano/Code/ReportingCom/sforce/repdotcom/<ipython console> in <module>()

/home/mariano/Sandbox/reporting/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sforce/enterprise.pyc in update(self, sObjects) 84 def update(self, sObjects): 85 xml = self._marshallSObjects(sObjects) ---> 86 return super(SforceEnterpriseClient, self).update(xml) 87 88 def upsert(self, externalIdFieldName, sObjects):

/home/mariano/Sandbox/reporting/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sforce/base.pyc in update(self, sObjects) 503 def update(self, sObjects): 504 self._setHeaders('update') --> 505 return self._handleResultTyping(self._sforce.service.update(sObjects)) 506 507 def upsert(self, externalIdFieldName, sObjects):

/home/mariano/Sandbox/reporting/lib/python2.6/site-packages/suds-0.4-py2.6.egg/suds/client.py in call(self, *args, **kwargs) 540 return (500, e) 541 else: --> 542 return client.invoke(args, kwargs) 543 544 def faults(self):

/home/mariano/Sandbox/reporting/lib/python2.6/site-packages/suds-0.4-py2.6.egg/suds/client.py in invoke(self, args, kwargs) 600 timer) 601 timer.start() --> 602 result = self.send(soapenv) 603 timer.stop() 604 metrics.log.debug(

/home/mariano/Sandbox/reporting/lib/python2.6/site-packages/suds-0.4-py2.6.egg/suds/client.py in send(self, soapenv) 647 else: 648 log.error(self.last_sent()) --> 649 result = self.failed(binding, e) 650 return result 651

/home/mariano/Sandbox/reporting/lib/python2.6/site-packages/suds-0.4-py2.6.egg/suds/client.py in failed(self, binding, error) 700 if status == 500: 701 if len(reply) > 0: --> 702 r, p = binding.get_fault(reply) 703 self.last_received(r) 704 return (status, p)

/home/mariano/Sandbox/reporting/lib/python2.6/site-packages/suds-0.4-py2.6.egg/suds/bindings/binding.py in get_fault(self, reply) 263 p = unmarshaller.process(fault) 264 if self.options().faults: --> 265 raise WebFault(p, faultroot) 266 return (faultroot, p.detail) 267

WebFault: Server raised fault: 'INVALID_TYPE: Must send a concrete entity type.'

TIA, Mariano

hmmm... The XML looks fairly similar to this: http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/resources/soap/sforce60/sforce_API_messages_update.html, and the code looks pretty similar to this: http://code.google.com/p/salesforce-python-toolkit/source/browse/trunk/EXAMPLES#228

Can you try a couple things? 1) try against suds 0.3.9 2) try retrieving the lead by ID, then setting the field, then calling update()?

Thanks for the bug report!

David

Hi David, thanks a lot for your quick answer. Actually I forgot to mention but I did try with retrieve, raising the same error. Find below the code:

In [13]: obj = x.h.retrieve("Dias_netos__c", "Curso__c", "a0150000008Uug0AAC")

In [14]: obj Out[14]: (sObject){ fieldsToNull[] = Id = "a0150000008Uug0AAC" type = "Curso__c" Dias_netos__c = 1.0 }

In [15]: obj.Dias_netos__c = 4.00

In [16]: obj Out[16]: (sObject){ fieldsToNull[] = Id = "a0150000008Uug0AAC" type = "Curso__c" Dias_netos__c = 4.0 }

In [17]: x.h.update(obj) 15:25:26,598 ERROR [suds.client] [MainThread] 00D500000007iS2!ARkAQFCVlpHS0oTj2jOVj51e_ZEeGLIiDfmea.PLRX1cv0ye7z1TcmMuC33leIn6F6F6ms82fwLvKfpvKeWaWTKmIF0w9sFY a0150000008Uug0AAC 4.0

WebFault Traceback (most recent call last)

/home/mariano/Code/ReportingCom/sforce/repdotcom/ in ()

/home/mariano/Sandbox/reporting/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sforce/enterprise.pyc in update(self, sObjects) 84 def update(self, sObjects): 85 xml = self._marshallSObjects(sObjects) ---> 86 return super(SforceEnterpriseClient, self).update(xml) 87 88 def upsert(self, externalIdFieldName, sObjects):

/home/mariano/Sandbox/reporting/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sforce/base.pyc in update(self, sObjects) 503 def update(self, sObjects): 504 self._setHeaders('update') --> 505 return self._handleResultTyping(self._sforce.service.update(sObjects)) 506 507 def upsert(self, externalIdFieldName, sObjects):

/home/mariano/Sandbox/reporting/lib/python2.6/site-packages/suds-0.4-py2.6.egg/suds/client.py in call(self, *args, **kwargs) 540 return (500, e) 541 else: --> 542 return client.invoke(args, kwargs) 543 544 def faults(self):

/home/mariano/Sandbox/reporting/lib/python2.6/site-packages/suds-0.4-py2.6.egg/suds/client.py in invoke(self, args, kwargs) 600 timer) 601 timer.start() --> 602 result = self.send(soapenv) 603 timer.stop() 604 metrics.log.debug(

/home/mariano/Sandbox/reporting/lib/python2.6/site-packages/suds-0.4-py2.6.egg/suds/client.py in send(self, soapenv) 647 else: 648 log.error(self.last_sent()) --> 649 result = self.failed(binding, e) 650 return result 651

/home/mariano/Sandbox/reporting/lib/python2.6/site-packages/suds-0.4-py2.6.egg/suds/client.py in failed(self, binding, error) 700 if status == 500: 701 if len(reply) > 0: --> 702 r, p = binding.get_fault(reply) 703 self.last_received(r) 704 return (status, p)

/home/mariano/Sandbox/reporting/lib/python2.6/site-packages/suds-0.4-py2.6.egg/suds/bindings/binding.py in get_fault(self, reply) 263 p = unmarshaller.process(fault) 264 if self.options().faults: --> 265 raise WebFault(p, faultroot) 266 return (faultroot, p.detail) 267

WebFault: Server raised fault: 'INVALID_TYPE: Must send a concrete entity type.'

I will try to downgrade to suds 0.3.9 and try both examples to see what happens. I will let you know as soon as I'm done.

Mariano

Ok, I'm guessing it's an issue with the XML namespace prefixes - could you give it a try with 0.3.9 and see if that works around the issue?

You hit the bull's-eye! Downgrading to suds 0.3.9 made the trick and I could update the object. Thanks a lot for your input.

Cool, I'll dig into what changed in 0.4 wrt namespace prefixes and re-release. Thanks again Mariano!

Issue 6 has been merged into this issue.

Added setup.py, which installs suds 0.3.9.