#6 Return WSDL in a GET request

[Byrne Reese]

Once we figure out a way to generate reliable WSDLs
from SOAP::Lite code, then it would be nice to support
a mechanism like other toolkits to return a WSDL in a
GET request a la:

http:://axisservice.com/service/Foo?WSDL
http://dotnetservice.com/foo.asmx?WSDL

Furthermore, it would be awesome to auto-generate an
HTML form to collect input as .NET does and Axis soon
will.

[Jonathan Peyser]

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There is a quick fix for this. In package
SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Daemon, modify the
subroutine 'handle'.

Replace the following 3 lines

$self->request($r);
$self->SUPER::handle;
$c->send_response($self->response);

with this if-else clause

if ($r->method eq 'GET') {
my $wsdl_file = $r->url->epath;
$wsdl_file =~ s/^\///;
$c->send_file_response($wsdl_file);
} else {
$self->request($r);
$self->SUPER::handle;
$c->send_response($self->response);
}

See message 2662 in the soaplite Yahoo Group

J. Peyser

[Martin Kutter]

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Auto-generating WSDL is impossible due to perls dynamic type system.

The get stuff is actually out of scope for a toolkit, though it really would be nice - as well as the automatic example pages (which can be generated from the WSDL via XSLT).

I'll file it as feature request, but with a low priority...