ADA2WSDL(1)

✨ ada2wsdl ✨ 🎀

Okay so bestie, ada2wsdl is the (1) manual page for this tool, and it is giving main character energy 💅🦋

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ada2wsdl — bestie, this tool makes a WSDL document straight from an Ada package specification 📜✨

🧚 SYNOPSIS 🧚

ada2wsdl [options] ada_spec

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So the Ada Web Server is a library that lets you stick a web server right inside your Ada app 🌈 It gives you HTTP, but it also gives you SOAP, WSDL, and a bunch of other facilities too. So you can literally build full-fledged web apps, no cap 🔥

Now, WSDL (Web Service Definition Language) is a language built on XML 🫶 A WSDL document describes, in a very formal way, how to talk to a Web Service. That description covers the end-point (the URL of the server offering the service), the SOAPAction (what you need to call the remote procedure), the procedure names, and a description of the input and output parameters. It's giving organized 💜

So with ada2wsdl, you can make a WSDL document that describes the Web Services provided by an Ada package 🎀 It uses ASIS to parse your Ada package specification, then generates the WSDL by mapping Ada types to Web Services types, and Ada subprograms to operations. Lowkey genius ✨

For more details on how ada2wsdl works and how to use it to develop web services, check out the AWS User's guide 📖💅

🦋 OPTIONS 🦋

• -a url — Tell it the URL for the Web Server address 🌐 Your web services will live at this address. You can add a port too, like http://server[:port]. If you don't set one, the default is http://.../. 💖
• -f — Force it to create the WSDL file, even if a file with the same name already exists. It will overwrite the old one 🔥
• -I path — Add a path for the ASIS compilation step. You can use this as many times as you want on the command line 🌸
• -noenum — Don't make a WSDL representation for Ada enumerations. Instead, map them to a standard string 🍓
• -o file — Write the WSDL document into file 📝
• -q — Quiet mode, so no output at all 🤫
• -s name — Set the Web Service name for the WSDL document. If you skip this, it just uses the spec package's name 🧚
• -v — Verbose mode, which displays the parsed spec 👀💜

💀 BUGS 💀

Okay bestie, these are the known issues, so read carefully 🙈

• ada2wsdl does not handle constrained arrays in records. 💀
• Unbounded_String is only fully interoperable inside a record. 💀
• Only unconstrained arrays are supported. 💀
• Arrays with multiple dimensions are not supported. 💀

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

awsres(1), wsdl2aws(1)

Also check out The Ada Web Server User's Guide in package libaws-doc 📚🎀

👑 AUTHOR 👑

wsdl2aws was written by Dmitriy Anisimkov <anisimkov@yahoo.com> and Pascal Obry <p.obry@wanadoo.fr> as part of the Ada Web Server 🫶

This manual page was written by Ludovic Brenta <ludovic.brenta@insalien.org> for Debian GNU/Linux 🌈💖

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Source: GNU Ada Tools, dated 11 JUN 2004. Stay iconic, bestie, and happy coding 💅✨🦋