WSDL is platform- and language-independent and is used primarily to describe SOAP services. It represents the definition of web services . Through a published WSDL user can create the appropriate soap request to access the publicly available web service methods. WSDL is written in XML and has 6 major elements .
- definitions -- root Element
- types -- data types of all parameters passed to a web method
- message -- name of the web method that needs to be called or sent in response . its one way only.
- portType -- it combines multiple messages to form a complete one-way or round-trip operation.
- binding -- A binding defines message format and protocol details for operations and messages defined by a particular portType.
- service -- The service element defines the address for invoking the specified service. Most commonly, this includes a URL for invoking the SOAP service.
a sample wsdl can be seen at below URL
http://www.gotoworkspace.com/us/soap3/timeClockSetupServer.php?wsdl
its respective soap request for operation (method) named updateTransferJobStatus will be as
< s11:Body >
< ns1:updateTransferJobStatus xmlns:ns1='urn:gotoworkspaceTimeClock' >
< clientconfig />
and for operation getPendingJobs corresponding soap request will be
< s11:Envelope xmlns:s11='http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/' >
< s11:Body >
< ns1:getPendingJobs xmlns:ns1='urn:gotoworkspaceTimeClock'>
< clientconfig />
< / ns1:getPendingJobs >
< / s11:Body >
< / s11:Envelope >
