Question

while trying to generate a proxy from this WebService (http://scdemo14.infor.com:9014/axis/services/wb:wsclocks-inbound?wsdl) I’m receiving this error from svcutil:

Error: Cannot obtain Metadata from
http://scdemo14.infor.com:9014/axis/services/wb:wsclocks-inbound?wsdl

If this is a Windows (R) Communication
Foundation service to which you have
access, please check that you have
enabled metadata publishing at the
specified address. For help enabling
metadata publishing, please refer to
the MSDN documentation at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=65455.

WS-Metadata Exchange Error
URI: http://scdemo14.infor.com:9014/axis/services/wb:wsclocks-inbound?wsdl

Metadata contains a reference that cannot be resolved:

‘http://scdemo14.infor.com:9014/axis/services/wb:wsclocks-inbound?wsdl’.

The content type text/xml; charset=utf-8 of the response message

does not match the content type of the
binding (application/soap+xml;
charset=utf-8). If using a custom
encoder, be sure that the
IsContentTypeSupported method is
implemented properly. The first 553
bytes of the response were: ‘

ns1:Client.NoSOAPAction
no SOAPAction
header!
usalwsc01

‘.

The remote server returned an error: (500) Internal Server Error.

HTTP GET Error
URI: http://scdemo14.infor.com:9014/axis/services/wb:wsclocks-inbound?wsdl

The document at the url http://scdemo14.infor.com:9014/axis/services/wb:wsclocks-inbound?wsdl

was not recognized as a known document
type. The error message from each
known type may help you fix the
problem:
– Report from ‘XML Schema’ is ‘The root element of a W3C XML Schema
should be and its namespace
should be
‘http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema’.’.
– Report from ‘DISCO Document’ is ‘Discovery document at the URL
http://scdemo14.infor.com:9014/axis/services/wb:wsclocks-inbound?wsdl
could not be found.’.
– The document format is not recognized.
– Report from ‘WSDL Document’ is ‘There is an error in XML document
(242, 18).’.

• Namespace prefix ‘impl:wb’ is not defined.

I invoked svcutil with these parameters:

svcutil /n:
*,WB.Client /et:WB.Client.WSResultObject
/o:Client\WBServices /noConfig
http://scdemo14.infor.com:9014/axis/services/wb:wsclocks-inbound?wsdl

Does anyone have an idea what can I do to generate a proxy? I cannot change the service on the server side.

Answer 1

The problem is that the service uses a naming convention for the binding which is incompatible with svcutil. You can get round this as follows:

• Browse the service’s WSDL URL and
  save the WSDL to a local file.
• Then make the following changes to the file:

• Remove the namespace prefix from the name used for the wsdl:binding i.e. change

  name="wb:wsclocks-inboundSoapBinding" to be

  name=”wsclocks-inboundSoapBinding”

• Change the binding attribute of the wsdl:port attribute to match, and also remove the namespace prefix from the value of the name attribute, so it is just wsclocks-inbound.

Then run svcutil <wsdl-file-path> /o:Client\WBServices /noConfig