Parsing: xsd:sequence of xsd:any

[jjagielka]

Definition from one of the Oracle systems:

<xsd:complexType name="AgileObjectType">
  <xsd:sequence>
    <xsd:element name="objectIdentifier" type="common:ObjectIdentifierType" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1" nillable="true"/>
    <xsd:any minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
    <xsd:element name="table" type="AgileTableType" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" nillable="true"/>
  </xsd:sequence>
</xsd:complexType>

Recived response:

<agileObject>
  <objectIdentifier> ... </objectIdentifier>
  <scheduleStartDate xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xsi:type="xs:date" attributeId="18010" readOnly="True">2022-04-18T08:00:00.000Z</scheduleStartDate>
  <scheduleEndDate xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xsi:type="xs:date" attributeId="18012" readOnly="True">2026-11-20T17:00:00.000Z</scheduleEndDate>
  <scheduleDuration xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xsi:type="xs:double" attributeId="18011" readOnly="True">1200.0</scheduleDuration>
  <estimatedStartVarianceWorkDays xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xsi:type="xs:double" attributeId="2000007677" readOnly="True">0.0</estimatedStartVarianceWorkDays>
    ...
  <table> ... </table>
</agileObject>

Is parsed to:

'agileObject': {
    'objectIdentifier': { ... },
   '_value_1': [  datetime.date(2022, 4, 18), datetime.date(2026, 11, 20), 1200.0, 0.0, ... ]

The field _value_1 is just an arbitrary list of values (as the values being empty are skipped), and there's no way to understand the information.

I need to patch the function zeep/xsd/elements/any.py: parse_xmlelements:

- result = []
+ result = {}
 
- result.append(item)
+ result[xlmelement.tag] = item 

To achive the informative version of the parsed object:

'agileObject': {
    'objectIdentifier': { ... },
   '_value_1': {
       'scheduleStartDate': datetime.date(2022, 4, 18),
       'scheduleEndDate': datetime.date(2026, 11, 20),
       'scheduleDuration': 1200.0,
       'estimatedStartVarianceWorkDays': 0.0,

Is that patching the only way to achieve that?