Introduction to the WSDL Module

The WSDL module provides functionality for SOAP 1.1 and 1.2.

The main purpose of this module is to provide the infrastructure for developing SOAP client and server services.

The main components of this module are as follows:

WebService: represents a WSDL file; an easy way to get an object of this type from a URL is by calling WSDL::WSDLLib::getWSDL()
WSDLLib: a class of static functions providing helper functions for the module
WSOperation: a class representing a single operation from a SOAP web service
WSMessageHelper: a class to create sample messages used by SOAP operations

See the following for modules using the WSDL module:

WSDL Module Release Notes

WSDL v0.5.4

fixed a bug returning data provider type info for simpleTypes with union definitions (issue 4480)

WSDL v0.5.3

fixed a bug handling complexType elements with a sequence and and any element (issue 4452)
fixed a confusing bug in the error message for WSDLLib::getWebServiceFromUrl() when the file could not be read (issue 4451)
fixed bugs loading URLs with multiple imports of the same external XSD schema (issue 4449)

WSDL v0.5.2

fixed a bug where the web service's name was not reported correctly by the WebService object (issue 4437)

WSDL v0.5.1

added support for the FileLocationHandler module

WSDL v0.5

added support for the data provider API

WSDL v0.4

added support for serializing and deserilizing WebService objects (issue 2793 and issue 1598)

WSDL v0.3.8

fixed a bug handling complexTypes as part types (issue 2900)
fixed bugs handling array types (issue 2899)
added support for token and normalizedString types (issue 2859)
fixed WSDLLib::getWSDL() when passed a WSDL string with no XML preamble (issue 2857)
fixed handling of XSD attribute names with non-word characters (issue 2856)
fixed handling of simpleType definitions with union members (issue 2855)

WSDL v0.3.7

implemented supoprt for handling SOAP faults in response messages with SOAP bindings (issue 2804)
fixed an error in namespace resolution with nested namespaces (issue 2786)
fixed a type error in example message generation that resulted in failed example message generation (issue 2782)
fixed a bug in example message generation that resulted in invalid messages (issue 2752)
implemented the wsdl_set_global_compat_empty_string_is_nothing function and the "compat_empty_string_is_nothing" option for the WebService class for backwards compatibility with older versions of the WSDL module (issue 2754)
implemented the wsdl_set_global_compat_allow_any_header function and the "compat_allow_any_header" option for the WebService class for backwards compatibility with older versions of the WSDL module (issue 2765)

WSDL v0.3.6

reimplmented operation to support multi binding, operation can be assigned to more bindings
support for HTTP binding and content-types, "^content-type^" attribute can identify content type to be used
extended SOAP binding serialization and deserialization with support to both body and header

WSDL v0.3.5.1

supress emitting a SOAPAction header in requests if the binding gives an empty string (issue 1226)
updated WSDL::WSOperation::serializeRequest() to allow the SOAPAction header to be overridden in each request (issue 1226)
respect XML generation flags in request generation
fixed parsing empty base64Binary and hexBinary elements (issue 1227)

WSDL v0.3.5

fixed many message serialization and deserialization issues
added WSDL::WebService::getOperation()
allow for environment variable substitution in WSDLLib::getWSDL() when retrieving files
fixed charset=... header value
added WSDL::WSMessageHelper
added WSDL::WebService::getReport()

WSDL v0.3.4

updated to a user module

WSDL v0.3.3

added initial support for the anyAttribute element of complexType
added initial support for SOAP header processing
added initial support for multiple portType and bindings in a WSDL

WSDL v0.3.2

fixed bugs de/serializing negative values for "int" and "short"

WSDL v0.3.1

improved XSD imports and namespace handling

WSDL v0.3.0

implemented WSDLLib class of helper functions
implemented support for xsd import statements in WSDLs

WSDL v0.2.0

use parseXMLAsData() instead of parseXML()
implemented initial simpleType support
fixed xsd:date serialization and deserialization

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