More Standardized Url Links For Soap Webservices

Yii 2.0 General Discussions
1

Hi,

current implementation of (soap) web services in Yii1.x uses following URL link formats:


ENDPOINT: http://www.mysite.com/controller/action?ws=1

WSDL: http://www.mysite.com/controller/action

However, following format of URL links is more usual in practice:


ENDPOINT: http://www.mysite.com/controller/action

WSDL: http://www.mysite.com/controller/action?wsdl (or wsdl=1, case insensitive)

( in Yii1.x this change would be applicable to CWebServiceAction::run() )

Cheers

2

We aren’t going to support WSDL in Yii2 core since REST nowadays is much more common. A port of 1.1 can be done in form of extension.

3

samdark, I assume the REST service will have a HTTP OPTIONS call that describes each service and how to interact?

(OPTIONS is basically the ‘wsdl’ of REST)

Edit: very nice blogpost about OPTIONS with restfull services: http://zacstewart.com/2012/04/14/http-options-method.html

4

Best to collect ideas, requirements, etc. here: Provide web-api support