How To Add Soap Header Message To WSDL

Let's modify the wsdl generated here to include header message. To do this, we define an element, named requestHeader. Eg.

We create a wsdl complex data type for this element, with two parameters, username and password as shown below;

We add the new element and the complex type definition to the wsdl <type> tag, within the <schema> tag. Eg

We also defined the data or interface for our requestHeader via the <message>

   tag. Eg;

We add this data definition to the message part of the wsdl file; eg

Next, we define <soap:header> tag for our requestHeader type eg.

Finally, we add this tag as part of the input for the boom() and getDate() operations immediately after within the <binding> tag. Eg

This is all we need to add header message to our WSDL. The complete wsdl file is shown below.

You can check out the updated server example that handles the soap header request.

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COMPLETE WSDL FILE :