Is anyone using Python for GS1 XML and AS2 EDI?

Asked 15/9, 2011 at 6:55 Answered 1/12, 2011 at 1:33

I'm helping some manufacturing companies link up their EDI systems using the GS1 XML specs (this is an international spec for companies to pass things like purchase-orders, invoices, barcodes etc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GS1).

There are lots of Big Iron solutions, and lots of Java and C# solutions, and even a couple in PHP. But I haven't found any projects in Python.

Have you tried this, and can you offer any war stories?

Bechler answered 15/9, 2011 at 6:55 Comment(0)

I worked with GS1 XML specs. Nothing special, just very baroque. for edi I use bots (http://bots.sourceforge.net) for AS2 (bots does not do AS2) http://opensource.mendelson-e-c.com/

Secor answered 15/9, 2011 at 10:56 Comment(3)

My e-mail alert was not fast enough... I wanted to recommend you/bots to Jagu ;-) – Indefensible 15/9, 2011 at 11:12

Thanks that looks like a really interesting gateway. – Bechler 16/9, 2011 at 8:16

I went with your suggestion, and it worked out very well: https://mcmap.net/q/1459386/-is-anyone-using-python-for-gs1-xml-and-as2-edi – Bechler 1/12, 2011 at 1:34

Followup.

I made the original post back in September. It's now December and the system is complete.

In the end I did use the BOTS EDI open source project (http://bots.sourceforge.net). This is a Python platform for doing electronic data interchange translations and comms.

This turned out to be an excellent option. The development was smooth and it saved an enormous amount of work that I was expecting. I highly recommend it.

Bechler answered 1/12, 2011 at 1:33 Comment(5)

Any possiblility you have a copy of the wiki or some kind of documentation? All documentation seems to have disappeared...code.google.com/archive/p/bots/wikis/StartIntroduction.wiki – Baribaric 3/2, 2016 at 19:8

No, sorry. That's a real worry if the project is going away. It has been a very good platform for us. – Bechler 4/2, 2016 at 23:17

They seem to be working on it. The project itself is now on Github: github.com/eppye-bots/bots. The documentation is available at botsdocs.readthedocs.org/en/latest. – Dram 20/3, 2016 at 0:49

That link doesn't seem to be working for me. For a split second the page loads and you can see the contents, but after that a 404 error appears and doesn't let me do anything. – Ambit 28/5, 2020 at 6:39

Sourceforge project has died, but there's some activity over at github.com/bots-edi/bots – Bechler 29/6, 2020 at 13:36

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