Advice for SOAP with no wsdl?

[Lance Woodson]

I am integrating with a merchandise fulfillment company on behalf of a
client for an ecommerce website. The fulfiller has a soap interface
for communicating orders to them, but they have no accessible WSDL (I
know, what the hell?).

So, everything I've been able to find relating to having a client for
a soap web service is with SOAP4R and seems to require a WSDL for use.
Right now, I'm leaning towards using the httpclient (http://
dev.ctor.org/doc/httpclient/) or rfuzz (http://rfuzz.rubyforge.org/
sample.html) and just working with straight HTTP.

Before I went any further, though, I figured I would see if anyone
else has run into this problem and found a better solution. Soooo,
anyone have any other solutions?

Thanks,
-Lance

[Frederick Cheung]

Could you write a wsdl file for the service from what documentation
you do have ?

Fred
> Thanks,
> -Lance

[Lance Woodson]

That is a possibility, though it would be something that I'm not
terribly familiar/comfortable with. Thanks for the idea.

On Nov 22, 10:25 am, Frederick Cheung <frederick.che...@gmail.com>
wrote:

[Sebastian von Conrad]

Would it be possible for you to contact the fulfiller and ask for a
WSDL file? Even if they don't have it publicly available, it might
still be possible for them to have one lying around. I have
encountered this very same problem where the SOAP interface existed
but did not have a WSDL--the problem was solved by the provider
sending me the WSDL, which I could use locally.

Regards,
Sebastian