Loading Incorrect WSDL Documents

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∟Loading Incorrect WSDL Documents

This section provides a tutorial example to test what will happen when loading an incorrect WSDL document to SoapUI. SoapUI is not good WSDL document validator. It will not give any loading errors for incorrect WSDL documents.

In this tutorial, I want to see how SoapUI handles errors in a WSDL document.

1. To do this, I created WSDL document with 2 errors:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<wsdl:definitions xmlns:wsdl="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/"
  xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/"
  xmlns:hy="https://www.herongyang.com/Service/"
  targetNamespace="https://www.herongyang.com/">
<!-- Error 1: targetNamespace must match the xmlns:hy definition -->

  <wsdl:documentation>
    Hello_WSDL_11_SOAP_Error.wsdl
    Copyright (c) 2007 HerongYang.com. All Rights Reserved.
  </wsdl:documentation>

  <wsdl:types>
    <xsd:schema xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<!-- Error 2: missing targetNamespace in xsd:schema -->

      <xsd:element name="HelloRequest" type="xsd:string"/>
      <xsd:element name="HelloResponse" type="xsd:string"/>
    </xsd:schema>
  </wsdl:types>

  <wsdl:message name="helloInputMessage">
    <wsdl:part name="helloInputPart" element="hy:HelloRequest"/>
  </wsdl:message>
  <wsdl:message name="helloOutputMessage">
    <wsdl:part name="helloOutputPart" element="hy:HelloResponse"/>
  </wsdl:message>

  <wsdl:portType name="helloPortType">
    <wsdl:operation name="Hello">
      <wsdl:input name="helloInput"
        message="hy:helloInputMessage"/>
      <wsdl:output name="helloOutput"
        message="hy:helloOutputMessage"/>
    </wsdl:operation>
  </wsdl:portType>

  <wsdl:binding name="helloBinding" type="hy:helloPortType">
    <soap:binding transport="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/http"/>
    <wsdl:operation name="Hello">
      <soap:operation
        soapAction="https://www.herongyang.com/Service/Hello"/>
      <wsdl:input name="helloInput">
        <soap:body use="literal"/>
      </wsdl:input>
      <wsdl:output name="helloOutput">
        <soap:body use="literal"/>
      </wsdl:output>
    </wsdl:operation>
  </wsdl:binding>

  <wsdl:service name="helloService">
    <wsdl:port name="helloPort" binding="hy:helloBinding">
      <soap:address
location="https://www.herongyang.com/Service/Hello_SOAP_11.php"/>
    </wsdl:port>
  </wsdl:service>

</wsdl:definitions>

2. Run SoapUI and create a new project called "TestProject" without initial WSDL document.

3. Right click on "TestProject" and select "Add WSDL". A small dialog box shows up.

4. Browse and find "Hello_WSDL_11_SOAP_Error.wsdl" to load it.

Surprisingly, the WSDL document is loaded without any errors! Binding "helloBinding" shows up in the project object tree. But operation "Hello" is not showing.

Conclusion - SoapUI is not good WSDL document validator. It will not give any loading errors for incorrect WSDL documents. But it will not show you the operation object, if it is not defined correctly in the WSDL document.