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

[Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>]

Michael,

Personally, I'd just build the XML manually.  It's pretty basic and not
SOAP based; SOAP services are where a WSDL really helps.

If you really want to look at creating a WSDL manually, this might help:
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-restwsdl/

Charles


On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 9:33 AM, Koester, Michael <mkoester@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> 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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