Can Swagger be used for SOAP?

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pavanlimo picture pavanlimo · Sep 11, 2014 · Viewed 41.7k times · Source

I was exploring Swagger and I must acknowledge I'm loving it.

I understand Swagger is primarily for RESTful web services, but I was wondering if we can make it work with SOAP web services as well. May be translate SOAP based web services to RESTful? Or simply call SOAP based services via Swagger UI? Some hack? Has anyone done it?

Answer

Santanu Dey picture Santanu Dey · Sep 11, 2014

Based on the present spec, I do not think so. It would not be easily possible to mention various aspects of a WSDL in swagger

To name a few:

  1. PortTypes
  2. Schemas and namespaces of request and response messages
  3. SOAP encodings (RPC/Literal etc.)

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