Parsing a SOAP response without wsdl using java/php

Question

I wish to consume a SOAP webservice from the Govt. of India public data sets. Here is an sample URL: http://data.gov.in/sites/default/files/Fish_2013.xml

I have been using REST APIs and have never used a SOAP one.This is a SOAP webservice and it does not give me any information about the wsdl file location. As per my understanding I can generate a client using the WSDL if available and use it but how do I use a SOAP API without WSDL. Most of the other posts talk about changing the response format but then its not possible in my case.

Answer 1

You can do 2 tricks:

• install a local webserver
• map the localhost/yourproject?wsdl to that xml file
• use a Soap client generator tool on that wsdl link ( some allow other links wich doesn't end at wsdl some doesn't)
• use the generated artifacts to consume soap.