Restful service in .NET with WADL instead of WSDL

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lmsasu picture lmsasu · Sep 21, 2010 · Viewed 16.2k times · Source

I used WCF to create a restful web service in .NET, by means of a .svc file. The web application automatically produces a WSDL file. AFAIK, the WADL is more natural for a restful web service.

How could I create a restful service in .NET (preferably with wcf) that produces a WADL description?

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Ben Robinson picture Ben Robinson · Sep 5, 2013

This is an old question but having consumed restful services with WADLs they do offer some value. You can import them straight into SOAPUI and it will build a test suite for you automatically. Secondly they tend to contains all the required XSDs for XML based services and are useful for automatically building serialisable classes that your endpoints accept and receive.

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