Re: Creating a WSDL for someone else's web service

New project: Communicate through a web service to some other outfit to
set up, modify, enable/disable, etc., email and other services. This will
be integrated with our Service Order maintenance application running on our
IBM Power, in ILE-RPG. I've consumed web services before. I can handle
this.

First obstacle: I am told that this is to be done through their "web
service" (quotes intentional), but when I requested access to the WSDL, I
was referred to the care and feeding document. Said document is a PDF
containing descriptions of how to perform various operations through
various snippets of XML. Cool. I asked again where to find the WSDL, and
was told "haven't got one." Oh.

Perhaps I can construct one, and paste in the XML pieces? This web
service (my contact refers to the "app") is not publicly available, which
may explain why they don't have a WSDL. Perhaps this has never been
requested by other clients they've invited to share the app with.

Question: How do I fudge up a WSDL that will include all the necessary
pieces to satisfy WSDL2RPG stub generators?

Second obstacle: I'm still waiting for SysOp to get the updates installed
to allow my access to "Web Administration for i". I suspect there is a
wizard or two there that would help, but I can't get there yet. We are on
7.1 (still waiting for TR7 too).

One of the operations from the care and feeding manual looks like this:
[I do have the URL of where the XML gets sent to, as well as the user and
password referenced in the authenticate tag]

To suspend the user, issue the following command:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<authenticate>
<user>[*****]</user>
<pass>[********]</pass>
<domain>gsinet.net</domain>
</authenticate>
<archive_user>
<user>
<userid>bob</userid>
<archive_code>NOPAY</archive_code>
</user>
</archive_user>


So given that I may be rolling my own WSDL by hand, can someone point me
to some useful details? My goal is to have a suitable WSDL to be accessed
by WSDL2RPG.

Many thanks,
Michael Koester
Programmer/Analyst

DataEast

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