It's 2008, and I'm still torn on this one. So I'm developing a web method that needs a complex type passed into it and returned from it. The two options I'm toying with are: Pass and return actual business objects with both data and behavior. When wsdl.exe is run, it will automatically create proxy classes that contain just the data...
Hello, I have a web application written in C# that consumes several internal web services. We have a development tier, a testing tier, and a production tier. Also, we use the WSDL.exe command to generate a Proxies.cs file for a given tier's web services. When we are ready to deploy our code up the stack from development to test or te...
When coding web services, how do you structure your return values? How do you handle error conditions (expected ones and unexpected ones)? If you are returning something simple like an int, do you just return it, or embed it in a more complex object? Do all of the web methods within one service return an instance of a single class, or...
Hello, I'm looking for a tool to generate a JavaScript stub from a WSDL. Although I usually prefer to use REST services with JSON or XML, there are some tools I am currently integrating that works only using SOAP. I already created a first version of the client in JavaScript but I'm parsing the SOAP envelope by hand and I doubt that my...
I have a service contract that defines a method with a parameter of type System.Object (xs:anyType in the WSDL). I want to be able to pass simple types as well as complex types in this parameter. Simple types work fine, but when I try to pass a complex type that is defined in my WSDL, I get this error: Element 'http://tempuri.org/:val...
I'm using a Visual Studio generated proxy class to access a web service (added the web service as a web reference to my project). The problem is that the function the web service exposes expects a CDATA element, i.e.: <Function><![CDATA[<Blah></Blah>]]></Function> Unfortunately, when I pass in "" into the proxy class, it calls the we...
Can anyone recommend a good (preferably open source) tool for creating WSDL files for some soap web services? I've tried playing around with some of the eclipse plug ins available and was less than impressed with what I found. ...
When running wsdl.exe on a wsdl I created, I get this error: Error: Unable to import binding 'SomeBinding' from namespace 'SomeNS'. - Unable to import operation 'someOperation'. - These members may not be derived. I'm using the document-literal style, and to the best of my knowledge I'm following all the rules. To sum it up, I have a...
Does anyone know of a good tool to generate the WSDL for a service contract written in C# (i.e. set of methods that are tagged as "[OperationContract]" using WCF)? All the tools I've found work the other way around: create code stubs from a WSDL. I don't want to have to hand-jam a WSDL file. I've found tools for php and J2EE, but not ...
I recently heart from WSDL.Exe, but did not find a download link. Anybody know the link? ...
I'm getting near completely different objects from the same WSDL file when I try to Add a Web Reference depending if I am using Express or Pro version of the vs2008 .NET IDE. 1) Why is this happening? I'd expect the WSDL's to act the same across platforms--clearly they are not! 2) How do I determine what tool/wizard the IDE is calling w...
The built-in PHP extension for SOAP doesn't validate everything in the incoming SOAP request against the XML Schema in the WSDL. It does check for the existence of basic entities, but when you have something complicated like simpleType restrictions the extension pretty much ignores their existence. What is the best way to validate the S...
I have an application for Tomcat which needs to offer/consume web services. Since Java web services are a nightmare (xml, code generation, etc.) compared with what is possible in Python, I would like to learn from your experience using jython instead of java for offerring/consuming web services. What I have done so far involves adapting...
I have numerous Web Services in my project that share types. For simplicity I will demonstrate with two Web Services. WebService1 at http://MyServer/WebService.asmx webService2 at http://MyServer/WebService.asmx When I generate the proxy for these two services I use: wsdl /sharetypes http://MyServer/WebService1.asmx http://MyServer/...
Is there any online service available to validate Web Service WSDL file? ...
I'm writing a simple web service using Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2005 (Express Edition), and the dynamically generated WSDL has a minOccurs="0" for all the parameters. How do I get minOccurs="1" for the required parameters without resorting to creating a static WSDL file? I need to do this using a ASP.NET Web Service (.NET v2). S...
I would like to generate a WSDL file from a c++ atl webservice without using a web server. I would like to generate it as part of the visual studio build or as a post build event. I found a program (CmdHelper) that does this for .NET assemblies but it doesn't seem to work for what I need. Any ideas? ...
I've inherited this really weird codebase where they've built an external web service over a bunch of internal web services just to add authentication/authorization using WS-Security, WS-Encryption, et al. Less than a month into this engagement, I'm already feeling the pain of coupling volatile components through rigid WSDL, esp consider...
I am hosting a WCF service in a Windows Service on one of our servers. After making it work in basicHttpBinding and building a test client in .NET (which finally worked) I went along and try to access it from PHP using the SoapClient class. The final consumer will be a PHP site so I need to make it consumable in PHP. I got stumped when ...
What are some guidelines for factoring of web services? On one extreme you have different procedures for every operation, and expose all types through WSDL. This seems to result in the WS interface changing as often as the business logic. On the other, a generic interface where the types and validation are performed a layer down from ...