Request and Response - Book Reservation

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∟Request and Response - Book Reservation

This section provides a mock request and a mock response for the Reservation Web service that uses SOAP 1.2 over HTTP with style='document' and operation name as the first level element name in SOAP Body to help RPC method based client API like SOAP::Lite.

Getting a mock request for Reservation_WSDL_11_SOAP_12_Document.wsdl is easy, since I learned how to use SoapUI. Here is a mock request generated with SoapUI with some data entered by myself:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<soap:Envelope
  xmlns:soap="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope"
  xmlns:ser="https://www.herongyang.com/Service/">
  <soap:Header/>
  <soap:Body>
    <ser:Reservation>
      <Member>Herong Yang</Member>
      <ItemList>
        <Item>Java Web Services</Item>
        <Item>SOAP Programming</Item>
      </ItemList>
    </ser:Reservation>
  </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

Notice that:

SoapUI uses the QName for the top level element in the SOAP Body "ser:Reservation". The prefix is defined to the target namespace: https://www.herongyang.com/Service/. This is an expected good behavior.
But SoapUI uses local name for sub elements: "Member", "ItemList" and "Item". This is because the default attribute elementFormDefault="unqualified" is assumed in the schema provided in the WSDL document, which says all non-root elements will be using local names only (unqualified names).

Here is a mock response generated with SoapUI with some data entered by myself:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<soap:Envelope
  xmlns:soap="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope"
  xmlns:ser="https://www.herongyang.com/Service/">
  <soap:Header/>
  <soap:Body>
    <ser:ReservationResponse>
      <Number>Herong Yang</Number>
      <Status>Wait</Status>
    </ser:ReservationResponse>
  </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>