Webservice sending its WSDL definition as its response - soap

Question

I am sending a SOAP request to a webservice but it is sending its WSDL definition back as its response.
What would lead to this?
Response:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><wsdl:definitions xmlns:wsdl="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/" targetNamespace="http://www.sample.com/test_request" xmlns:mime="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/mime/" xmlns:tns="http://www.sample.com/test_request" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:http="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/http/" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/" xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
<wsdl:types>
<xsd:schema e
Code:
import javax.xml.soap.*;
import javax.xml.transform.*;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.*;
public class Test {
/**
* Starting point for the SAAJ - SOAP Client Testing
*/
public static void main(String args[]) {
try {
// Create SOAP Connection
SOAPConnectionFactory soapConnectionFactory = SOAPConnectionFactory.newInstance();
SOAPConnection soapConnection = soapConnectionFactory.createConnection();
// Send SOAP Message to SOAP Server
String url = "https://xxxxxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxx.com/xxxxxxxx.do?WSDL&xxxxxxxxx=qualified";
SOAPMessage soapResponse = soapConnection.call(createSOAPRequest(), url);
// Process the SOAP Response
printSOAPResponse(soapResponse);
soapConnection.close();
} catch (Exception e) {
System.err.println("Error occurred while sending SOAP Request to Server");
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
private static SOAPMessage createSOAPRequest() throws Exception {
MessageFactory messageFactory = MessageFactory.newInstance();
SOAPMessage soapMessage = messageFactory.createMessage();
SOAPPart soapPart = soapMessage.getSOAPPart();
String serverURI = "http://www.xxxxxxxx.com/xxxxxx";
// SOAP Envelope
SOAPEnvelope envelope = soapPart.getEnvelope();
envelope.addNamespaceDeclaration("a", "http://www.xxxxxxw.com/xxxxxxxx");
// SOAP Body
SOAPBody soapBody = envelope.getBody();
SOAPElement soapBodyElem = soapBody.addChildElement("test", "a");
SOAPElement soapBodyElem1 = soapBodyElem.addChildElement("testid", "a");
soapBodyElem1.addTextNode("xxxxxxxxx");
MimeHeaders headers = soapMessage.getMimeHeaders();
headers.addHeader("SOAPAction", "http://www.xxxxxx-xxxxx.com/xxxxxxx/xxxx");
String username = "123";
String password = "123";
String authorization = new sun.misc.BASE64Encoder().encode((username + ":" + password).getBytes());
System.out.println(authorization);
headers.addHeader("Authorization", "Basic " + authorization);
headers.addHeader("Proxy-Connection","Keep-Alive");
soapMessage.saveChanges();
/* Print the request message */
System.out.println("Request: ");
soapMessage.writeTo(System.out);
System.out.println();
return soapMessage;
}
/**
* Method used to print the SOAP Response
*/
private static void printSOAPResponse(SOAPMessage soapResponse) throws Exception {
TransformerFactory transformerFactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
Transformer transformer = transformerFactory.newTransformer();
Source sourceContent = soapResponse.getSOAPPart().getContent();
System.out.print("\nResponse SOAP Message = ");
StreamResult result = new StreamResult(System.out);
transformer.transform(sourceContent, result);
}
}
What have caused this issue?
I am getting proper response from SOAP UI

Answer 1

You specified in the URL to get the WSDL (Parameter ?WSDL). You need to specify the proper URL for the service operation you want to call.