I am testing a new webservice that is receiving messages from an application and responding with messages with specific information. The webservice then uses this information to create new messages for downstream systems. I need to know the best way I can test this using the Ready API tool, we just got a pro license. Is it SOAP or REST I need to use. Ideally I want to simply copy my application messages in to the tool, call the webservice and get the response, which I can then check is the correct response for the test
To find your web-service is SOAP or REST.
Please check whether your web service has WSDL to verify it has SOAP web-service, you can get your web-service's WSDL by post-fixing WSDL with your web service url.
Eg: http://{yourservice-url/path1}?WSDL
If your service don't provide WSDL from the above URL, then your web-service is REST.
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I would like to know the best practices of calling a REST API from SOAP.
Requirement:
We have a SOAP-based web service that is already consuming by many applications. we would like to rewrite the SOAP API with Rest(basically a Spring boot application), but we want to call the rest from SOAP to support the existing applications.
The one way I know is we can call the Rest Api from the SOAP server implementation class
EX: Consider EmployeeService;java is a SOAP implementation class
EmployeeService.java
getEmployee(){
Calling new Rest Api
}
Existing app1 ---->SOAP --> REST API
Existing app2 ---->SOAP --> REST API
new app1 --> REST API.
Please let me know is there any best way\alternate way to handle it.
You can use boomerang soap client.
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I am new to web application development, I am learning many things from many tutorial, currently I am learning SOAP and REST.
My confusion is regarding SOAP , in SOAP based architecture when a user enters a URL, it takes him/her to SOAP client and then that is the page that the client sees ? and then this SOAP-client will actually communicate to another application SOAP server ??
Not understanding it at all? Can someone please explain?
SOAP is meant for communication between machine over HTTP/HTTPS with common interoperable format i.e XML.
Think like you are payment gateway provider, someone's would like to use your payment gateway for transactions.
So as payment gateway provider, you may create webservice, and whoever wants to use it could create SOAP client to use your payment gateway service.
So in your case the HTML page is party would like to utilise the payment gateway service (by calling the SOAP service).
Do some googling, you will find lots of practical SOAP use cases.
I have a Rest Api (Python/flask) that send response in json.
I need to POST a request with 3 parameters (body) using Soap, but I don't know about Soap and I don't understand the samples.
Can I just use a mediator to "translate" my Rest Api into a Soap Api ?
How can I test the Post request with SoapUi ? Do I need to use a wsdl file ?
I just need entry point documentation.
thanks.
You will need a WSDL to define your operation/web-service i.e SOAP Request incl 3 parameters. I use eclipse with the Web Tools plug in to create WSDLS. Then you'll need to get SOAP --> New Soap Project, and include the wsdl. LEt me know when you get there , and we can continue!
You will need to define your operations of the SOAP web service in a WSDL. Then you can create a new project in SOAPUI with this WSDL. Follow http://www.soapui.org/soap-and-wsdl/operations-and-requests.html on how to create a request for a particular operation.
In ESB you can create an API for your REST service (https://docs.wso2.com/display/ESB481/Creating+APIs). Now you need to use a payloadfactor mediator in your API in sequence to transform your SOAP(XML) request to JSON (https://docs.wso2.com/display/ESB481/PayloadFactory+Mediator). Then, this JSON request will be sent to the REST backend. If you again need to transfer the JSON response from the backend to SOAP, include another payload factory mediator to transform.
Regardless of whether I create a RESTful Web service to be consumed by Ajax in my own pages, or by any user, I can provide the same functionality (data) to the application or user using a simple servlet.
I mean the user or application don't see any different between response provided by a simple servlet or respone provided by a RESTful web service. So, I'm guessing that the benefit is on the server side and to the developers. Can someone please tell me what are the benefits of using RESTful web services.
I appreciate any respone
By definition a webservice is intended to be consumed by any client granted access. If the client you are developing is the only application that you will ever need or want to access the resource then there is little benefit to creating a webservice. However, if you want to make the resource available as a service endpoint for more than just this application in a way that is implementation agnostic then a Restful webservice is a great way of doing it.
I'm not able to understand the process of calling web services from my iphone application.
Please explain the procedure for calling web services in my iphone application in detail:
How to send request to webservices
How to parse the responses
Which protocol is used to send the request
Which parser is used to retrive the response
Also explain what is SOAP, JSON, HTTP GET & POST, XML and what is the purpose of all these.
I'd be very happy if you send some code for calling web services in iphone application for my easy understanding.
Thank you.
SOAP and REST are web services.. JSON and XML are the formats they (webservices) returns..
you can find about SOAP and REST here..
http://www.taranfx.com/rest-vs-soap-using-http-choosing-the-right-webservice-protocol
find xml and json here.
http://www.subbu.org/blog/2006/08/json-vs-xml
If you are looking for consuming SOAP in iPhone you can read my blog here.
http://www.makebetterthings.com/blogs/iphone/call-soap-web-service-from-iphone/