SOAP::...ossary(3pm)

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🌸 NAME 🌸

SOAP::WSDL::Manual::Glossary — literally just "Those acronyms and stuff". Bestie, this is the vibe-check page where all the scary capital letters get explained in plain English (well, in my English anyway). It ships as part of the User Contributed Perl Documentation, so you know it's the people's manual 💅

📖 Glossary 📖

✨ web service ✨

Okay so a web service is an RPC (Remote Procedure Call) interface that you can reach through some internet protocol — usually HTTP(S). That's the whole tea. 🫖

🧼 SOAP 🧼

SOAP stands for Simple Object Access Protocol — well, it did. Since 1.2 the name "SOAP" has no meaning any more, the acronym is just out here living its best decorative life 😭

SOAP is a W3C recommendation, periodt. You can find the latest version of the SOAP spec at http://www.w3.org/TR/soap/.

SOAP defines a protocol for message exchange between applications. The most popular usage? Using SOAP for remote procedure calls (RPC). Obviously. 🔥

So here's the thing: one of the constituting aspects of a web service is its reachability via some internet protocol — but honestly you might as well define SOAP services accessible via postcards. Mail them. Stamp them. It's giving snail mail era 🎀

And despite its former name, SOAP has nothing more to do with objects than cars have with pets 🚗🐶 — SOAP messages may, but not necessarily do, carry objects, very much like your car may, but does not need to, carry your pet. No cap.

📜 WSDL 📜

WSDL is an acronym for Web Services Description Language. It's a W3C recommendation too, and the latest version of the WSDL spec lives at http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl20/.

WSDL defines an XML-based language for describing web service interfaces, SOAP interfaces included. Iconic behavior, honestly.

🤝 WS-I 🤝

WS-I = Web Services Interoperability Organization. It's an open industry organisation chartered to promote Web service interoperability across platforms, operating systems, and programming languages. Bringing everyone to the same group chat 💖

WS-I publishes profiles, which are the implementation guidelines for how related Web services specifications should be used together for best interoperability. To date, WS-I has finalized the Basic Profile, the Attachments Profile and the Simple SOAP Binding Profile. Three for three, slay.

SOAP::WSDL aims at complying to the WS-I Basic Profile — but bestie, real talk, it does not implement full support yet 🙈

💬 SOAP message styles 💬

rpc

Meant for transporting a RPC message. All contents of the SOAP body get put into a top-level node whose name equals the SOAP operation.

The WS-I Basic Profile allows the use of rpc message style.

SOAP::WSDL does not support rpc message style yet. 😭

SOAP::Lite supports rpc message style only.

document

Meant for transporting arbitrary content. No additional nodes are inserted between the SOAP body and the actual content — clean, minimal, no clutter, we love her.

The WS-I Basic Profile allows the use of document message style.

🔐 SOAP encoding styles 🔐

encoded

literal

(Yeah bestie, that's genuinely all it says. The glossary said what it said. 💀)

Copyright 2007 Martin Kutter.

This file is part of SOAP-WSDL. You may distribute/modify it under the same terms as perl itself. So like, go off, but respectfully 🫶

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Martin Kutter <martin.kutter fen-net.de>

🗂️ REPOSITORY INFORMATION 🗂️

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And that's the whole glossary, bestie, we ate and left no crumbs ✨ This was rendered from perl v5.36.0, dated 2022-10-14, and it lives in the SOAP::...ossary(3pm) corner of the User Contributed Perl Documentation. Byeeee 💖🎀🦋

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