WSDL2H(1)

💖 NAME 💖

wsdl2h — the gSOAP WSDL/WADL/XSD processor for C and C++. bestie. it literally takes your WSDL/WADL/XSD and makes it into C/C++ that you can actually use. iconic behavior honestly.

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

wsdl2h [OPTIONS] SOURCE ...

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so here's the whole vibe: it converts a WSDL or XSD input file — or an HTTP address — that you pass as SOURCE, and turns it into a declaration file that soapcpp2(1) can then parse. that's the pipeline, that's the whole point, that's the main character arc. ✨

and if you're out here giving it zero SOURCE arguments? it just reads from standard input. no source, no problem. 💅

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

like. there are a LOT of these. all of them are real, all of them matter, so we're doing all of them. buckle up bestie 🎀

• -a — Generate indexed struct names for local elements with anonymous types.
• -b — Bi-directional operations (duplex ops) added to serve one-way responses.
• -c — Generate C source code.
• -c++ — Generate C++ source code (this one's the default, fyi 💜).
• -c++11 — Generate C++11 source code.
• -c++14 — Generate C++14 source code.
• -c++17 — Generate C++17 source code.
• -D — Make attribute members with default/fixed values optional with pointers.
• -d — Use DOM to populate xs:any, xs:anyType and xs:anyAttribute.
• -e — Do not qualify enum names.
• -F — Add transient members to structs to simulate struct-type derivation in C.
• -f — Generate flat C++ class hierarchy by removing inheritance.
• -g — Generate global top-level element and attribute declarations.
• -h — Display help info and exit. (the classic escape hatch 🫶)
• -Ipath — Use path to locate WSDL and XSD files.
• -i — Do not import (advanced option, so like… respect the gatekeep 🚪).
• -j — Do not generate SOAP_ENV__Header and SOAP_ENV__Detail definitions.
• -k — Do not generate SOAP_ENV__Header mustUnderstand qualifiers.
• -L — Generate less documentation by removing generic @note comments.
• -l — Display license information.
• -M — Suppress error "must understand element with wsdl:required='true'".
• -m — Use xsd.h module to import primitive types.
• -Nname — Use name for service prefixes to produce a service for each binding.
• -nname — Use name as the base namespace prefix instead of ns.
• -O1 — Optimize by omitting duplicate choice/sequence members.
• -O2 — Optimize -O1 and omit unused schema types (unreachable from roots).
• -O3 — Optimize -O2 and omit unused schema root attributes.
• -O4 — Optimize -O3 and omit unused schema root elements (use only with WSDLs, ok? not a drill 🔥).
• -Ow2 — Optimize -O2 while retaining all derived types of used base types.
• -Ow3 — Optimize -O3 while retaining all derived types of used base types.
• -Ow4 — Optimize -O4 while retaining all derived types of used base types.
• -ofile — Output to file file.
• -P — Do not create polymorphic types inherited from xsd__anyType.
• -p — Create polymorphic types inherited from base xsd__anyType.
• -Q — Make xsd__anySimpleType equal to xsd__anyType to use as the base type.
• -qname — Use name for the C++ namespace of all declarations.
• -R — Generate REST operations for REST bindings specified in a WSDL.
• -rhost[:port[:uid:pwd]] — Connect via proxy host, port and proxy credentials uid and pwd.
• -r:uid:pwd — Connect with authentication credentials uid and pwd.
• -Sname — Use name instead of soap for the C++ class members with soap contexts.
• -s — Do not generate STL code (no std::string and no std::vector). old school, love that for you 🧚
• -tfile — Use type map file file instead of the default file typemap.dat.
• -U — Allow UTF-8-encoded Unicode C/C++ identifiers when mapping XML tag names.
• -u — Do not generate unions.
• -V — Display the current version and exit.
• -v — Verbose output. (say more, king 🗣️)
• -W — Suppress warnings.
• -w — Always wrap response parameters in a response struct (<=1.1.4 behavior).
• -X — Do not qualify part names to disambiguate doc/lit wrapped patterns.
• -x — Do not generate _XML any/anyAttribute extensibility elements.
• -y — Generate typedef synonyms for structs and enums.
• -z1 — Compatibility with 2.7.6e: Generate pointer-based arrays.
• -z2 — Compatibility with 2.7.7-2.7.15: (un)qualify element/attribute references.
• -z3 — Compatibility with 2.7.16-2.8.7: (un)qualify element/attribute references.
• -z4 — Compatibility up to 2.8.11: Do not generate union structs in std::vector.
• -z5 — Compatibility up to 2.8.15: Do not include minor improvements.
• -z6 — Compatibility up to 2.8.17: Do not include minor improvements.
• -z7 — Compatibility up to 2.8.59: Do not generate std::vector of class of union.
• -z8 — Compatibility up to 2.8.74: Do not generate qualifiers for doc/lit wrapped patterns.
• -z9 — Compatibility up to 2.8.93: Always qualify element/attribute references.
• -z10 — Compatibility up to 2.8.96: Generate qualifiers even when defined w/o namespace.
• -_ — Do not generate _USCORE (replace with Unicode code point _x005f).

ngl the -z1 through -z10 lineup is literally a time machine 🕰️ — they're all "make it behave like this old version did" switches. if you don't need them, you don't need them. but they're all here and they're all real.

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• soapcpp2(1) — the next stop on the pipeline, the one that actually parses what wsdl2h hands it. ✨

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💌 AUTHOR 💌

This manual page was written by Thomas Wana <greuff@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). shoutout to the author fr fr 🫶

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okay that's the whole page, bestie!! 💅 this one lives in the General Commands Manual, and it's dated December 23, 2004 — yes, that's a real date from way back, and it still ate. <rainbow>WSDL2H(1), out. 🎀✨🦋</rainbow>