In this tutorial, we are going to use gSOAP Toolkit. Because gSOAP is working on a lot of OS, I suppose you chose Linux and potential embedded and/or optimized linux like Raspbian on Raspberry Pi.

gSOAP Toolkit, Development toolkit for Web Services and XML data bindings for C & C++

(Original Reference)

We use the gSOAP 'wsdl2h' WSDL parser to obtain the gSOAP header file specification of a Web service from a WSDL document.

To obtain a header file from a WSDL document, run 'wsdl2h' on a WSDL:

wsdl2h -o outfile.h infile.wsdl

where infile.wsdl can be a resident WSDL file or a Web location of the WSDL. The outfile.h is the generated output file.

For example:

wsdl2h -o XMethodsQuery.h http://www.xmethods.net/wsdl/query.wsdl

This generates the header file XMethodsQuery.h. The header file defines the service in a more familiar C/C++ header format that you can browse within your IDE.

Now, we run the gSOAP compiler 'soapcpp2' on the gSOAP header file to produce the source code to implement the client application. The 'soapcpp2' stub and skeleton compiler generates proxies (and RPC stubs) for your client application as follow :

The gSOAP runtime library provides a transport layer with an HTTP stack on top of TCP/IP as well as secure SSL and DIME/MIME attachment support. To develop a service application, run the gSOAP 'wsdl2h' parser on a WSDL to create a gSOAP header file. The header file is compiled with the 'soapcpp2' compiler as follow:

The 'soapcpp2' compiler generates the C/C++ Web service skeletons. You can also take a legacy C/C++ application and develop a service simply by entering the C/C++ Web service method operations and data types into a header file. The 'soapcpp2' compiler generates the source code for your project and produces a WSDL to advertize your Web service .

Write your first SOAP and REST Web Services following these instructions :

Getting Start with gSOAP

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