Generating Request/Response XML from a WSDL
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 & Response XML" while the question body says "Request & 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
<s:element name="GetWeather">and ends with</s:element>. - Copy out the block into a text editor; above this block add:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <s:schema xmlns:s="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" elementFormDefault="qualified"> - Below the block of copied XML, add
</s:schema> - 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
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.
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.
The easiest way is to use this chrome extension link, happy web service requesting