I know nothing about this stuff other than some basic XML knowledge so this is a bit like climbing Everest in winter in your skivvies for me (not that I would, I don’t even like heights!).
I have a SOAP service that I can make requests to quite fine thank you if I hard code the soap request string. So what I want to do is to create a wsdl for the service so that anyone can use it. Fine.
However the actual data being requested is determined by one of the attributes of the request. So imagine the following:
Now for any given request the ident_of_thing_I_want is a fixed string so I want to be able to define that in the wsdl itself so that when I gen a SOAP request from the wsdl for this ‘thing’, that ident string, i.e. ‘ident_of_thing_I_want’ is automatically included into the soap request.
In other words, not only does the wsdl define the request attributes, but in the case of this one, the actual contents as well.
However, so far I have been unable to figure out if this is even possible, never mind how to do it.
I am using the WSDL editor of the Web Tools Project in Eclipse to create my wsdl and BIRT (also in Eclipse) to test it. to make matters worse I am unfamiliar with either tool or indeed even Eclipse itself so the whole experience so far ‘sucks’.
Plus, the tools are all Java based and Java runs like a snail on my machine!
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