elementFormDefault="qualified" - Refill Order

This section provides a tutorial example on how to write a WSDL 1.1 example that uses SOAP 1.1 over HTTP with style='document' and elementFormDefault='qualified' in the schema to use qualified names for sub elements in SOAP Body.

When you design an XML document based Web service, you have an option to use the "elementFormDefault" schema attribute to hide or expose namespace on non-root elements:

To help testing the impact of elementFormDefault="unqualified", I wrote the forth example with:

In this WSDL example, I defined a RefillOrder Web service, which allows you to send a SOAP request to place drug refill order. And I expect the server to return the status of my order. Here is the WSDL document, RefillOrder_WSDL_11_SOAP_11_Document.wsdl:

<?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/Service/">

  <wsdl:documentation>
    RefillOrder_WSDL_11_SOAP_11_Document.wsdl
    Copyright (c) 2007 HerongYang.com. All Rights Reserved.
    Version 1.0
  </wsdl:documentation>

  <wsdl:types>
    <xsd:schema elementFormDefault="qualified"
      xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
      targetNamespace="https://www.herongyang.com/Service/">

      <xsd:element name="RefillOrderRequest"
         type="hy:RefillOrderRequestType"/>
      <xsd:element name="RefillOrderResponse"
         type="hy:RefillOrderResponseType"/>

      <xsd:complexType name="RefillOrderRequestType">
        <xsd:sequence>
          <xsd:element name="Patient" type="hy:PatientType"/>
          <xsd:element name="Prescription"
            type="hy:PrescriptionType"/>
        </xsd:sequence>
  <xsd:attribute name="version" type="xsd:string"/>
      </xsd:complexType>

      <xsd:complexType name="RefillOrderResponseType">
        <xsd:sequence>
          <xsd:element name="OrderStatus" type="hy:OrderStatusType"/>
        </xsd:sequence>
  <xsd:attribute name="version" type="xsd:string"/>
      </xsd:complexType>

      <xsd:complexType name="PatientType">
  <xsd:attribute name="name" type="xsd:string"/>
  <xsd:attribute name="birthDate" type="xsd:date"/>
      </xsd:complexType>

      <xsd:complexType name="PrescriptionType">
  <xsd:attribute name="drug" type="xsd:string"/>
  <xsd:attribute name="doctor" type="xsd:string"/>
      </xsd:complexType>

      <xsd:complexType name="OrderStatusType">
  <xsd:attribute name="number" type="xsd:string"/>
  <xsd:attribute name="status" type="xsd:string"/>
      </xsd:complexType>

    </xsd:schema>
  </wsdl:types>

  <wsdl:message name="refillOrderInputMessage">
    <wsdl:part name="refillOrderInputPart"
      element="hy:RefillOrderRequest"/>
  </wsdl:message>
  <wsdl:message name="refillOrderOutputMessage">
    <wsdl:part name="refillOrderOutputPart"
      element="hy:RefillOrderResponse"/>
  </wsdl:message>

  <wsdl:portType name="refillOrderPortType">
    <wsdl:operation name="RefillOrder">
      <wsdl:input name="refillOrderInput"
        message="hy:refillOrderInputMessage"/>
      <wsdl:output name="refillOrderOutput"
        message="hy:refillOrderOutputMessage"/>
    </wsdl:operation>
  </wsdl:portType>

  <wsdl:binding name="refillOrderBinding"
    type="hy:refillOrderPortType">
    <soap:binding transport="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/http"/>
    <wsdl:operation name="RefillOrder">
      <soap:operation style="document"
        soapAction="https://www.herongyang.com/Service/RefillOrder"/>
      <wsdl:input name="refillOrderInput">
        <soap:body use="literal"/>
      </wsdl:input>
      <wsdl:output name="refillOrderOutput">
        <soap:body use="literal"/>
      </wsdl:output>
    </wsdl:operation>
  </wsdl:binding>

  <wsdl:service name="refillOrderService">
    <wsdl:port name="refillOrderPort"
      binding="hy:refillOrderBinding">
      <soap:address location=
        "https://www.herongyang.com/Service/RefillOrder.php"/>
    </wsdl:port>
  </wsdl:service>

</wsdl:definitions>

See the next tutorial for testing requests and responses.

Table of Contents

 About This Book

 Introduction to WSDL 2.0

 WSDL 2.0 Document Structure and Syntax

 WSDL Version 2.0 Part 2: Adjuncts

 WSDL 2.0 Document Examples with SOAP Binding

 Using WSDL Document in Java Apache Axis2/Java for WSDL

 Apache Woden for WSDL Documents in Java

 SoapUI - Web Service Testing Tool

 PHP SOAP Extension for WSDL

 Perl SOAP::Lite for WSDL

 Introduction to WSDL 1.1

 WSDL 1.1 Document Structure and Syntax

 WSDL 1.1 Binding Extension for SOAP 1.1

 SoapUI as WSDL 1.1 Testing Tool

WSDL 1.1 and SOAP 1.1 Examples - Document and RPC Styles

 SOAP 1.1 Message Styles and Encoding Options

 First Example - Hello

 Request and Response - Hello

 document/literal Example - Guest Registration

 Request and Response - Guest Registration

 rpc/encoded Example - Get Exchange Rate

 Request and Response - Get Exchange Rate

 SOAP Body and Operation Name - Book Reservation

 Request and Response - Book Reservation

elementFormDefault="qualified" - Refill Order

 Request and Response - Refill Order

 encodingStyle="uri" for use="encoded"

 Request and Response - Get Stock Price

 PHP SOAP Extension for WSDL 1.1

 Perl SOAP::Lite for WSDL 1.1

 Apache Axis2/Java for WSDL 1.1

 Using WSDL2Java to Generate Web Service Stub Classes

 WSDL 1.1 Binding Extension for SOAP 1.2

 WSDL 1.1 and SOAP 1.2 Examples - Document and RPC Styles

 SOAP 1.2 Binding - PHP, Java and Perl Clients

 Python SOAP Client: Zeep

 WSDL Related Terminologies

 Archived Tutorials

 References

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