Is it possible to generate wsdl with use of SvcUtil or any other tool. I know I can view wsdl in browser while running the service but I need to have one wsdl file that doesn't have xsd:import directive but rather specifies all the information in this file.
If it's a one off you could manually construct the single WSDL file. But that's no fun. :)
Another way is to create an endpoint behavior. See Improving WCF Interoperability: Flattening your WSDL for the full details.
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I have a complex xds file I need to create a WCF SOAP service based on. I have generated the classes using xsd.exe. The resulting classes uses XML serialization.
My challenge is how to use this class to build a service. Please any suggesting a recourse that can guide me will be highly appreciated.
Basically the c# classes generated when I run xsd.exe xsdfile.xsd /classes is all that is needed. I just created a new wcf service and in the operation contract passed the generated c# object as the parameter and that was it. It worked
I imported a service reference using wsdl, this wsdl contains classes and methods, some of which to be implemented in my web service. Now, publishing my WS and trying to get the wsdl I notice a lot of differences between the imported one and the generated (namespaces, "ArrayOf" prefix in collections, ...).
I'm using just the classes provided by the original wsdl, so I can't understand why the wsdl of my WS has to be different...
I need to output a wsdl identical to the one imported because they will be both imported from my customer to make an interface, so everything has to be coincident.
Thank you
Without knowing more details, I don't see why your customer is being handed two WSDLs.
To simplify things just hand the generated WSDL from your web service to your customer. If there are things in the imported WSDL that are not in the generated WSDL I would just duplicate the missing pieces in your generated WSDL.
The generated WSDL probably contains more generic definitions of collections than what you provided so that it is compatible with different client languages.
I am C#.NET developer. I am writing a application which can call web service dynamically. I got one web service that is written in Java. This web service returns only web method name in WSDL file but doesn't returns their input/output parameters details. They keep all details in another XSD link. That xsd link present in WSDL file. I want to know that how I can read that XSD file and how we can read Web Method name and their input and output parameters.
I am looking help on priority.
this is sample link: http://www.java-tutorial.ch/api-doc/ArticleService.html#src.N10068
Thanks in advance.
Rajeev
XSD files are valid XML which means you can parse it with classes from the System.Xml or System.Xml.Linq namespaces. I'm assuming when you say you're dynamically calling the web service that you can't rely on a static WSDL reference in Visual Studio
Assuming you are using Visual Studio and are looking to generate proxy classes to consume the web service you need to add a web reference to the WSDL. You can find instructions on how to do this at microsoft.
This process will generate the classes required to interact with the webservice, including all the methods and properties.
This isn't the only way to generate the proxy classes, but IMHO it's the easiest.
Here is a working example of what you can end up with:
I develop against an ERP system called Netsuite. They provide a WSDL at https://webservices.netsuite.com/wsdl/v2013_2_0/netsuite.wsdl.
Following the instructions in the link above I show the following:
I can now call the class like any other. In order to view the classes now available,
view the reference in the Object Browser. The image below shows all the classes, each one of course you can click into to see what properties are available.
I want to create a wsdl by using 3 xsd-files. How do you that?
I tried this in the command prompt:
wsdl.exe /language:cs /parameters: c:\myService\Contract\HeaderData.xsd c:\myService\Contract\MyData.xsd c:\myService\Contract\Messages.xsd /out: MyWsdl.wsdl
What do I wrong?
I believe that there's a misunderstanding here. Most likely the wsdl.exe in your illustration refers to Microsoft's tool, which is described as:
The Web Services Description Language tool generates code for XML Web services and XML Web service clients from WSDL contract files, XSD schemas, and .discomap discovery documents.
From what you seem to imply by asking the output to be a WSDL file, I can safely assume that you really try to create a WSDL file starting from XSD files. Below I am trying to explain why you cannot do that that easy, and what options you have.
The diagram below shows you the model behind the WSDL 1.1 specification.
Your XSDs fit exactly, and only under types. It WSDL terms, types represent your type system used to describe the parts that make up messages, which are then used to describe input/output and faults of operations organized as ports (abstract interfaces) bound to application/transport protocols, and ultimately made (physically) accessible as services at one or more network endpoints.
To generate WSDL(s) out of XSD(s), you realized by now that you need to provide some more data to a tool that would automatically generate a WSDL for you. For example, what operations you want to describe in your WSDL? For each one of them, what's the input, most likely the output and maybe one or more faults? How would you group them (portType = interface)? What binding do you want to use: HTTP, SOAP? What version of SOAP? SOAP over: HTTP, MQ? SOAPAction? How many WSDL files: 1, or maybe 3?
Some tools may ask you a series of questions (data entry/wizards) along the above lines and then create the WSDL(s) for you. Others, use predefined patterns in the implementation of XSD schema constructs (for example, IFX has a certain way to define Request/Response elements) so based on those assumptions a specialized tool such as QTAssistant (I am associated with it) would ask you less questions, while still creating the WSDLs.
I remember one or two online tools that were able to allow the user to upload XSD files and then create WSDL after prompting you a couple of questions, but I can't seem to find them anymore... kind of like this one...
From my understanding, you don't go xsd->wsdl, but I could be wrong.
Generating a WSDL from an XSD file might help clear it up for you though.
You cannot auto-generate a WSDL from an XSD in this manner. In order to create the WSDL, you need to start with a new WSDL and import this XSD.
The XSD defines the types of data that are available for services. Some XSD is usually embedded in a WSDL, some are imported specifically.
An alternate way is to use the XSD in C# to generate a service, and then extract the concrete WSDL from that service, but this is not preferred as many teams prefer contract first web services.
I have written a WCF Rest Service that uses XmlSerializer.
I have also implemented IXmlSerializable on the type I am accepting as a service parameter.
The serialization works great.
However the help files that WCF generates by default do not work. when i navigate to : myservice/help i only see this:
Could not generate schema document.
So is it possible to control what gets generated ? Perhaps there is something I'm missing to make the help files generate correctly.
I do not know how to control help files generation. Most likely, there is no way. But you can disable default help files generation in configs and map to /help paths your custom logic. It may use some reflection or be hard-coded, but you will get what you want - control over help pages generation