VIES has changed XML response format

[jwldk]

Seems as of today the VIES service has changed their XML response format.

pyvat.check_vat_number("DK12345678")
ValueError: expected response XML root element to be a SOAP envelope

The XML appears to be missing the soap:Envelope which the current implementation expects:

<env:Envelope xmlns:env="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"><env:Header/><env:Body><ns2:checkVatResponse xmlns:ns2="urn:ec.europa.eu:taxud:vies:services:checkVat:types"><ns2:countryCode>DK</ns2:countryCode><ns2:vatNumber></ns2:vatNumber><ns2:requestDate>2022-08-12+02:00</ns2:requestDate><ns2:valid>false</ns2:valid><ns2:name>---</ns2:name><ns2:address>---</ns2:address></ns2:checkVatResponse></env:Body></env:Envelope>

[zoomie]

Here is a fix for this issue -> #60

[lsaffre]

I can confirm that zoomie's pull request works for me. And now I hope to get this released to PyPI because my test suites are failing.

[sowinski]

Same here with

pyvat.check_vat_number("ATU76127718")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<console>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/home/git/myvenv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pyvat/__init__.py", line 212, in check_vat_number
    country_code)
  File "/home/git/myvenv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pyvat/registries.py", line 123, in check_vat_number
    'expected response XML root element to be a SOAP envelope'
ValueError: expected response XML root element to be a SOAP envelope

[sowinski]

Any idea how to contact the maintainer?

[MatinF]

We urgently need this fixed as well

[lsaffre]

Maybe this project is orphaned. There are already 27 forks (https://github.com/iconfinder/pyvat/network/members), maybe one of them is ready to take over the maintenance. But we should try to contact the author, who should then give access on PyPI to somebody else.

[jwldk]

Solved with latest patch.