Generating Request Response XML from a WSDL

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Is there a way to generate Request  amp  Response XML formats from just a WSDL file - if the webservice is not live right now       SoapUI doesn t give me the response unless it contacts the Webservice with a request  Is there any other tool which can do this   I should assume this information is available - because without it - client stub frameworks like Axis JAXWS etc won t be able to generate stubs for generating the requesting and then interpreting the response

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To test your WSDL file online links are    https   wsdlbrowser com    https   wsdlanalyzer com

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The easiest way is to use this chrome extension link  happy web service requesting

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I use SOAPUI 5 3 0  it has an option for creating requests responses  also using WSDL   you can even create a mock service which will respond when you send request  Procedure is as follows    Right click on your project and select New Mock Service option which will create mock service   Right click on mock service and select New Mock Operation option which will create response which you can use as template      EDIT  1   Check out the SoapUI link for the latest version  There is a Pro version as well as the free open source version

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Parasoft is a tool which can do this  I ve done this very thing using this tool in my past work place  You can generate a request in Parasoft SOATest and get a response in Parasoft Virtualize  It does cost though   However Parasoft Virtualize now has a free community edition from which you can generate response messages from a WSDL  You can download from parasoft community edition

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Doing this yourself will give you insight into how a WSDL is structured and how it gets your job done  It is a good learning opportunity  This can be done using soapUI  if you only have the URL of the WSDL   I m using soapUI 5 2 1  If you actually have the complete WSDL as a file available to you  you don t even need soapUI  The title of the question says  Request  amp  Response XML  while the question body says  Request  amp  Response XML formats  which I interpret as the schema of the request and response  At any rate  the following will give you the schema which you can use on XSD2XML to generate sample XML    Start a  New Soap Project   enter a project name and WSDL location  choose to  Create Requests   unselect the other options and click OK  Under the  Project  tree on the left side  right-click an interface and choose  Show Interface Viewer   Select the  WSDL Content  tab  You should see the WSDL text on the right hand side  look for the block starting with  wsdl types  below which are the schema for the input and output messages  Each schema definition starts with something like  lt s element name  GetWeather  gt  and ends with  lt  s element gt   Copy out the block into a text editor  above this block add    lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  UTF-8   gt   lt s schema xmlns s  http   www w3 org 2001 XMLSchema  elementFormDefault  qualified  gt  Below the block of copied XML  add  lt  s schema gt  Decide if you need  UTF-16  instead of  UTF-8  The  s   and the  xmlns s  should match the block you copied  step 5  Save this file with   xsd  extension  if you have  XML Copy  Editor  or some such tool  XML Spy  may be  you should check that  this is well-formed XML and valid schema  Repeat for all  element  items in the right hand pane of soapUI  until you reach  This way you ll get some type definitions you might not be  interested in  If you want to pick and choose  use the following  method  Look through the  wsdl operation  items under  wsdl portType  in the WSDL text below the type definitions  They will have  wsdl input  and  wsdl output   Take the message names from  wsdl input  and  wsdl output   Match them against  wsdl message  names which will likely be above the  wsdl portType  entries in the WSDL  Get the  wsdl part  element name from  wsdl message  item and look for that name as element name under  wsdl types   Those will be the schema of interest to you    You can try above procedure out using the WSDL at http   www webservicex com globalweather asmx wsdl

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Since you are saying the webservice is not live right now  you can do it by creating mockservices which will create the sample response format

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Try this online tool  https   www wsdl-analyzer com  It appears to be free and does a lot more than just generate XML for requests and response   There is also this  https   www oxygenxml com xml editor wsdl soap analyzer html  which can be downloaded  but not free

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