I have a web service deployed on Jetty. I use the SOAP UI to call it via link like http://ip:port/DefaultRequestListener?workflow=WsdlCPF&soapAction=Import and it works.
I have always worked with service which had ?wsdl at the end of url, but now I confused.
Why there is no ?wsdl at the end of url?
A Web Service endpoint usually has an url that looks like this:
http://server:port/services/myservice
It does not have a wsdl parameter. This is the url of the web service itself, the one that will be called by the clients.
Most web service frameworks have a convenient feature in which they map the url of the endpoint with a wsdl url parameter to a webpage that shows the content of the WSDL for that web service. So this url:
http://server:port/services/myservice?wsdl
Is like telling the server: "Show me the wsdl file for this web service endpoint". The content that you see in that webpage is not a wsdl file stored in disk, it is just the content of the wsdl generated by the framework.
This feature is very useful because if we want to create a client for that web service we don't need to go ask for the wsdl file, we can just go and fetch it from that url.
In SoapUI
All this means that in SoapUI you would create a new project and tell him that the wsdl file can be found here: http://server:port/services/myservice?wsdl. If you tell him that the wsdl file is: http://server:port/services/myservice it will throw an error as that is not a wsdl file.
Alternatively you could enter the location of the wsdl file that you have in disk instead of the url and it should create the same ws client.
Then SoapUI will read the wsdl and he will see that the endpoint for the web service is http://server:port/services/myserviceso this is where he will send the requests.
Your web service
In your case, since you are already passing url parameters to the endpoint, you can consider that your webservice will be called at this url:
http://ip:port/DefaultRequestListener?workflow=WsdlCPF&soapAction=Import
And if you want to see the wsdl for that web service, you just add a wsdl parameter to the url. Note that just as any other url query the symbol ? just denotes that the url ends there and next characters are url parameters which are separated by &. In your case you have 3 parameters (workflow, soapAction and now wsdl):
http://ip:port/DefaultRequestListener?workflow=WsdlCPF&soapAction=Import&wsdl
now it returns a text like Company type: blah blah... Region: blah blah...
This is the wsdl content, which of course includes the xml types used in the web service, all normal.
Maybe it looks strange to you because in the wsdl file you have in disk it does not show all these types and instead it imports the xsd files that contain those definitions. The wsdl you see in your browser will never have imports like that, and will always show all the types embedded in the wsdl file.
Scroll down past all those types definitions and you will see the rest of the wsdl.
I hope it helped to make clear that the url with ?wsdl at the end is not the web service and it's just the wsdl content.
Related
We have deployed our webservice in liberty server.Earlier it was on IBM WAS. After deploying in liberty, we came to know that Webservices is running on CXF webservice framework. In WAS, it was Axis framework.
Another difference is that , changes happened in wsdl url & content. The old wsdl url is http://localhost:8080/Hello/HelloServices/Helloservices.wsdl and it contains xsd schema definition.
In the liberty server above wsdl url is not working and throwing file not found. But if we try to invoke http://localhost:8080/Hello/HelloServices?wsdl it's working.
Could anyone tell why old url is not working in New server. Is it due to server or inbuilt cxf framework in server.
Another team is using wsdl url to consume this webservice, with this new url they are not able to achieve it.
Any thoughts or suggestions are appreciated..
Thanks in Advance
The main reason for this is the change in the JAX-WS implementations used by the different WebSphere profiles. CXF, unfortunately, hard codes the WSDL url to append ?wsdl in several locations and so this is something that is not possible to change in configuration. The easiest solution would to add a ServletFilter to check the incoming request url for http://localhost:8080/Hello/HelloServices/Helloservices.wsdl and then redirect the request to http://localhost:8080/Hello/HelloServices/Helloservices?wsdl.
There's a good SO post that shows how to write a ServletFilter to redirect here:
How to use a servlet filter in Java to change an incoming servlet request url?
The other option would be to have the client side update either their code or configuration to account for the change to the WSDL URL.
I have a project where we have developed the webservices using grails.
Here we have given the mapping in URLMappings.groovy and have controller and Services defined along with domain clasess.
When we get a request we generate an xml or json response based on the request.
Here we have not used any wsdl file.
Can anyone explain how this works in background and why we don't need a wsdl here?
I am using a wsdl file sent to me via email to generate a WS client application but I wonder if it is better to have the WSDL hosted on a server and to use an URL to request it.
Actually, I requested the URL but apparently this WSDL don't have one and I can ask to create an Url for the wsdl if it is really necessary.
Can you tell me please what are the benefits of using the WSDL Url to create a WS client ?
There is not difference for you how to generate WS client. In both cases this is just WSDL document, no matter where it located is.
I see only one benefit direct accessible WSDL against WSDL file - WSDL will be always actual and and all web service changes will be reflected to WSDL document.
If you using axis 2, you can try call your webservice with ?wsdl suffix to get WSDL document
if this your webservice url
http://localhost:8080/axis2/services/StockQuoteService
This is wsdl location
http://localhost:8080/axis2/services/StockQuoteService?wsdl
i am relative new in java development..
I want to create a web service (jax-ws)/web application that will receive some input and generate pdf, and then open the pdf in the browser. I manage to create the pdf (using itext) and open it in the broswer using servlet (with FileInputStream etc).
However i do not know, how to return the servlet from the web service.
What should I do, so when I call the web service to receive a pdf via the servlet ?
If you've returned PDF from servlet, it means your servlet sent PDF stream as output and probably set content type as "application/pdf". This works fine in the browser and this is the right way to do it.
However, you cannot easily invoke web service (no matter whether it is JAX-WS or any other stack) from the browser. Web service call requires POST and strictly defined SOAP content. You can, however, use AJAX to call web service, but that is a different story (also look at REST).
If you want to return binary data from web service (please keep in mind that web-services are for machines, not for humans using web browsers), you have two options: either serialize the binary data using base64 or use multipart HTTP response (MTOM standard, see for instance: http://www.mkyong.com/webservices/jax-ws/jax-ws-attachment-with-mtom).
I have different Spring Web Services, which are included into the context by the
Endpoint Annotation, so there are no dependencies despite the Annotation (no interface etc.). Therefore, no "context" information is present.
Now I want to chain a web service request, ie. an Endpoint is called which itself should call a web service on the same server. I can use Spring's WebServiceTemplate, however, I need the current server url for this request.
Is there any way how this url can be injected during application startup into the Endpoints? Since the Endpoints do not extend some class, there is no way to get this information anywhere inside the Endpoints, also the request parameters do not have this information (these are simple JAXB-classes, which are marshalled on request).
I believe the best option is to send the URL as part of the request.
This also enables you to dynamically change the URL to a third server later.