WSF/PHP WSDL Generation 2 Minutes Introduction

Whenever you deploy a service script in WSF/PHP you can access its WSDL by adding “?wsdl” or “?wsdl2” (for WSDL version 2.0) to the service endpoint. Anyway you may have noticed that for some services it will just list the operations with xsd:anyType as the input and output message schemes.

For an example for an operation like this,

<?php

function getInvoice($order_no) {
   //something that return an invoice for this order 
}

$operations = array("getInvoice" => "getInvoice");

$svr = new WSService(array("operations" => $operations));

$svr->reply();
?>

This will generate you a nice WSDL but with a schema similar to this,

<xsd:element name="getInvoice">
    <xsd:complexType>
       <xsd:sequence>
           <xsd:element name="order_no" type="xsd:anyType"/>
       </xsd:sequence>
    </xsd:complexType>
</xsd:element>

This schema is not enough for get an understanding about the request, response message formats, because it uses xsd:anyType to represent a general message. In order to get more specific schema, you need to provide more details to the WSDL generator. Here is how it is done using annotations.

<?php
/**
 * @param int $orderNo Order Number
 * (maps to xsd:int)
 * @return string $invoice Invoice as a string
 * (maps to xsd:string)
 */
function getInvoice($order_no) {
   //something that return an invoice for this order 

}

$operations = array("getInvoice" => "getInvoice");
$opParams = array("getInvoice" => "MIXED"); // Have to declare parameters as MIXED

$svr = new WSService(array("operations" => $operations, "opParams" => $opParams));

$svr->reply();
?>

Now check the schema. It will gives you the information specific to your request, response messages.

<xsd:schema elementFormDefault="qualified"
    targetNamespace="http://www.wso2.org/php/xsd">
    <xsd:element name="getInvoice">
        <xsd:complexType>
            <xsd:sequence>
                <xsd:element name="orderNo" type="xsd:int"/>
            </xsd:sequence>
        </xsd:complexType>
    </xsd:element>
    <xsd:element name="getInvoiceResponse">
        <xsd:complexType>
            <xsd:sequence>
                <xsd:element name="invoice" type="xsd:string"/>
            </xsd:sequence>
        </xsd:complexType>
    </xsd:element>
</xsd:schema>

So it is your chance to do more experiment with this feature. Check WSDL generation API for more snippets.