Rest – WSDL for REST WCF

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I've created a REST WCF in C# by specifying WebGET and WebHttpBinding in web.config. The service works fine through IE. My wsdl starts as below and it has soap in wsdl. Since this is REST, should'nt the soap be present in wsdl.

WSDL :

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> 
 <wsdl:definitions name="ServiceImp" targetNamespace="http://tempuri.org/"    
    xmlns:wsdl="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/" 
    xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/" 
    xmlns:wsu="http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-wssecurity-utility-1.0.xsd" 
    xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" 
    xmlns:wsam="http://www.w3.org/2007/05/addressing/metadata" 
    xmlns:tns="http://tempuri.org/" 
    xmlns:wsa="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/08/addressing" 
    xmlns:wsp="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/09/policy" 
    xmlns:wsap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/08/addressing/policy" 
    xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" 
    xmlns:msc="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ws/2005/12/wsdl/contract" 
    xmlns:wsaw="http://www.w3.org/2006/05/addressing/wsdl" 
    xmlns:soap12="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap12/" 
    xmlns:wsa10="http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing" 
    xmlns:wsx="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/09/mex">

In the above wsdl, Since this is HTTP, why is the soap content coming in REST service?

Thanks,
Vinoth Khanna.S

Best Answer

WCF is not able to describe REST service. REST service can be described by WADL or WSDL 2.0 but WCF doesn't support any of these description languages.

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