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MrAurora24-Jul-12 2:55
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Hi All,

I have my first SOAP project coming up soon and really need some clarification on how the communication part works. More specifically, I need to consume data from a web service using SOAP. So, maybe it's more of a web service question than SOAP, I am not really sure. Here is what I have gathered so far about the communication aspect from reading and looking at code examples.

All SOAP web services provide a WSDL file. Using this file you can generate client side code by using wsdl.exe or SvcUtil.exe. You can also add a pointer or URL to the WSDL file as a service reference and access the methods that way. I have tinkered a bot with these things and produced the files. This part makes sense to me. The part I don't understand is how as a developer are we to know HOW to use the code produced ? An example would be this. In my upcoming project the 3rd party who owns the SOAP based web service provided a couple of very small code examples. In these examples a couple of the methods take string values as parameters. In the example, there is no way on earth I could know what values goes into these parameters. They appear to be things the their developer has a switch statement in the server code or something where he/she decides to do something based on what he/she receives as a parameter value but how the heck am I suppose to know what to send ? I am not talking about something intuitive like "yes" or "no", these are parameter values like "EU ROHS|REACH SVHC (46)". And I have to assume if you miss the pipe, it doesn't return the right result. So how on earth could I know the format without any documentation ? So, my first instinct was that they MUST PROVIDE documentation on how to use it. That makes sense. Well, while I am waiting for the project to ramp up I thought I better start getting more familiar with this topic. I started reading and looking at code snippets and from what I can tell, this seems to be pretty typical. Someone writes a web service and you, as the consumer, should just know how to use it. No documentation is provided like you would typically receive with a proprietary API. So this makes me think I am missing something. Is there something that I have not read about where you can figure out how to use a service without the need for any documentation ? Some way to figure out that (in SOAP anyhow) this tag accept these 5 values, and this tag accepts these 3 values. I don't understand how as a consumer I can know what to send in any particular tag. Is there something available to determine this like the way that the SOAP WSDL files can be used to produce client side code maybe ? I am very confused about this aspect of SOAP and web services.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
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