WSDL Validator

Name

wsdlvalidator - validates whether a WSDL document is well-formed and schema conformed.

Synopsis

 wsdlvalidator -s <schema-url>* -w [[-V|-verbose]|-quiet] <wsdl-url>

 wsdlvalidator [-?|-h|-help] 

 wsdlvalidator -v 

Description

The wsdlvalidator validates whether a WSDL document is well-formed and schema conformed as noted by the following checks.

  • Check the WSDL document for XML well-formedness.
  • Validate the WSDL document against its XML schema.
  • Validate the WSDL document using some of the semantic rules defined in the WSDL specification.
  • Validate the WSDL document against custom validation rules, such as those defined by the Web Services Interoperability (WS-I) organization (i.e. WS-I Basic Profile rules).
  • Validate the WSDL against strange exceptions, incorrectly generated code and general bad WSDL issues.

To execute the wsdlvalidator tool using Ant set the Java task's classname property to
org.apache.cxf.tools.validator.WSDLValidator.

Options

The options used to validate WSDL file are reviewed in the following table.

Option

Interpretation

-s <schema-url>

Specifies the URL of a user specific schema to be included in the validation of the contract. This switch can appear multiple times.

-V,-verbose

Displays comments during the code generation process.

-quiet

Suppresses comments during the code generation process.

-w

Suppress warnings, if you want to validate logical wsdl (no service/bindings), you have to turn on this option

wsdl-url

The path and name of the WSDL file to use in generating the code.

-?,-h,-help

Displays the online help for this utility and exits.

-v

Displays the version number for the tool.

You must specify the absolute or relative path to the WSDL document as the last argument.

Examples

wsdlvalidator HelloWorld.wsdl

wsdlvalidator -s http://mycompany/schemas/extension.xsd -s http://mycompany/schemas/types.xsd Greeting.wsdl

See Also

idl2wsdl, java2js, java2ws, wsdl2corba, wsdl2java, wsdl2js, wsdl2service, wsdl2soap, wsdl2xml and xsd2wsdl.