Can Swagger be used for SOAP?

Question

I was exploring Swagger and I must acknowledge I\'m loving it.

I understand Swagger is primarily for RESTful web services, but I was wondering if we can make it work

Answer 1

online "translate SOAP based web services to RESTful" is what exactly DreamFactory does. Open Source API management tool based on Swagger. Here you can read about SOAP-to-REST functionality.

Answer 2

This might be worth a try: Swagger connector and Preparing the API for consumption.

There is a module for pointing at a SOAP WSDL to expose it through a Loopback server: http://strongloop.com/strongblog/soap-into-rest-apis-with-loopback-node-js/

As an API server to glue existing and new data sources, LoopBack is designed to facilitate your backend data integration. With the release of loopback-connector-soap module, you can now easily consume SOAP web services and transform them into REST APIs.

I can't yet confirm that it works, but it looks like a way of exposing a SOAP service using Swagger.

Answer 3

Based on the present spec, I do not think so. It would not be easily possible to mention various aspects of a WSDL in swagger

To name a few:

1. PortTypes
2. Schemas and namespaces of request and response messages
3. SOAP encodings (RPC/Literal etc.)