SOAP/REST Webservices
Chandini Sri
Intern
March, 2023
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Web Services
• Small pieces of code that provides a proper functionality is an API. When these
aPIs are hosted web are called as web services.
• Webservice enables communication among various applications by using open
standards such as XML, WSDL, and SOAP.
• Web Services have 2 types of uses:
• Reusable application components like currency conversion, weather
reports or even language translation as services.
• Connect existing software with web services you can exchange data
between different applications and different platforms.
SOAP web Services
• SOAP – Simple Object Access Protocol.
• SOAP message is captured WSDL and it uses XML format for communication.
• We have different and certain set of operations like add, delete,… .
• SOAP can be established on any platform which is HTML based.
• A SOAP message is an ordinary XML document containing the following
elements :
• An Envelope element that identifies the XML document as a SOAP
message.
• A Header element that contains header information.
• A Body element that contains call and response information.
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WSDL
• Web Services Definition Language.
• Used to describe web services.
• It is the report service that shows how to call a particular service and binding
service (for each operation what service is used).
• There are 2 types of WSDL :
• Concrete WSDL (Complete WSDL), which tells what and where to call.
• Absolute WSDL, just defines what to call. Doesn’t have WSDL service
binding, but SDL can be called.
• It specifies the location of the service and the methods of the service using the
following elements :
• <types> : defines the (XML Schema) data types used by the web
service.
• <message> : Defines the data elements for each operation.
• <portType> : Describes the operations that can be performed and the
messages involved.
• <binding> Defines the protocol and data format for each port type.
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REST
• Representational State Transfer Web services.
• RESTful are basically REST Architecture based Web Services.
• REST is tightly packed with http while establishing, but not like SOAP.
• REST uses standard operations/methods like GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, etc.
These methods are called as verbs of http.
• GET is used to retrieve a list of items or single item.
• POST is used to create an item.
• POST is used to UPDATE an item.
• DELETE is used to delete an item.
• REST APIs have 3 fundamental elements :
• Resource Identifier Syntax : Represent the actual resources that a
service exposes like URI
• Methods : Protocol mechanism used to transfer the data like GET, POST,
etc.
• Types of data transferred : XML, JSON
• Features :
• Everything in REST architecture is a resource.
• REST services use JSON format (Java Script Object Notation).
• RESTful web services are light weight, highly scalable and maintainable.
• REST APIs deliver better performance than SOAP services on any given
day.
• REST APIs are widely used in web-based applications.
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• https://www.BankSystems.com:4098
• http is the protocol
• www.BankSystems.com is the base URL
• :4098 is the port number
• https://www.BankSystems.com:4098/
getBank?BankId=123&bank_name=Wells Fargo
• getBank is the relative URL
• ? Is the query parameter
• bankId is the key
• 123 is the keyValue
• &bank_name=Wells Fargo is another key-value pair
• Parameters can be of 2 types :
• Query parameters, which can have ‘n’ number of keys along with
values.
• Template parameter, which indicates the direct value as shown below
-> getBank/123
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