How to use Soap UI without wsdl?

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Hi I have installed Soap UI...Like C, Java we will create some sample program. likewise i wanted to use some sample request and response..how to create a request and response without wsdl?

SOAP UI will create a request for you - if you have WSDL. If you don't, then you're on your own. How is SOAP UI supposed to help you in that case? — duffymo, Mar 22 '11 at 10:07
@duffymo - How SOAP UI can help? By probing or allowing the user to manually probe the functions and thereby build up a WSDL. For me, it's catch 22 - What's the point of SoapUI if I have a perfectly well defined WSDL in the first place? — Hein du Plessis, Oct 17 '11 at 07:04
You can check this link to get started http://www.soapui.org/getting-started/your-first-soapui-project.html, you can also find sample wsdls too. — Rao, Mar 04 '15 at 14:27

score 69 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 08 '18 at 15:59

Create new SOAP Project using File > New SOAP Project
Set the name as required
Leave the initial WSDL field blank
On the Project Navigator Window to the left, mouse over the project folder and select New Rest Service from URI using the context menu
Enter the enpoint you would like to send a SOAP message to, i.e. http://www.webservicex.net/WS/WSDetails.aspx?CATID=2&WSID=10
Choose POST as the HTTP method
Add your xml SOAP payload to the window in the bottom left
Choose media type: text/xml from the combobox
Click to green arrow to POST the message to the specified endpoint
And voilà - you should see the SOAP response on right-hand side window :)

so basically... Do a REST POST request instead? – Malcolm Salvador Dec 03 '18 at 13:54 — Malcolm Salvador, Dec 03 '18 at 13:54

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 10 '15 at 13:41

I wanted to send a SOAP request to a simple ASP.NET MVC Controller and the way I managed to do it using SoapUI was:

1) Create a SOAP request using any WSDL (no matter what WSDL you use, then you'll change it).

2) Open a request, change the URL and change the body of the request.

That way you can post a SOAP request with full control. Just in case it is useful, inside the controller I'm logging all the requests we receive using this in C#:

                string requestData;
                // Get raw request body
                using (Stream receiveStream = Request.InputStream)
                {
                    // Move to begining of input stream and read
                    receiveStream.Position = 0;
                    using (StreamReader readStream = new StreamReader(receiveStream, Encoding.UTF8))
                    {
                        requestData = readStream.ReadToEnd();
                    }
                }

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 20 '14 at 20:49

Although you asked this question a few years back and hopefully you have been able to find an answer to your question.

Here is my answer to your question, hopefully not too late.

SoapUI is meant to test API, web service. To start testing it requires access to a WSDL. That said a project can be created without a WSDL. The only time i can think of i would not need a wsdl would be when whatever I am testing is not a web service and can be testing using either JDBC step or groovy step or a similar step except the test request step.

In one of your comments you asked if a wsdl is available, yes there are site where publicly accessible wsdls are available you can check out the below site for wsdls.

http://www.xmethods.net/ve2/index.po
http://www.webservicelist.com/
http://www.webservicex.net/WS/wscatlist.aspx

Hope you are having better luck with soapUI than you had with this question.

Also, SoapUI itself comes with sample tutorials, which come with a WSDL. — SiKing, May 23 '14 at 17:34

How to use Soap UI without wsdl?

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