---
name: "ada2wsdl"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "libaws-bin"
version: "20.2-2"
release: "Debian 11 (Bullseye)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/ada2wsdl"
---

# ada2wsdl(1)

Generate a WDSL document from an Ada package specification

## NAME

ada2wsdl - Generate a WDSL document from an Ada package specification

## SYNOPSIS

**ada2wsdl** \[options\] *ada\_spec*

## DESCRIPTION

The Ada Web Server is a library that allows you to embed a web server into your Ada application.  It provides not only HTTP but also SOAP, WSDL and several other facilities.  Thus you can write full-fledged web applications.

WSDL (Web Service Definition Language) is a language based on XML. WSDL documents describe, in a formal way, the interface to Web Services. This description consists of the end-point (URL to the server offering the service), the SOAPAction (needed to call the remote procedure), the procedure names and a description of the input and output parameters.

Using **ada2wsdl**, you can create a WSDL document that describes Web Services provided by an Ada package.  **ada2wsdl** uses ASIS to parse your Ada package specification, and generates a WSDL document by mapping Ada types to Web Services types, and Ada subprograms to operations.

Please see the AWS User's guide for more details on how **ada2wsdl** works, and how you can use it to develop web services.

## OPTIONS

- **-a** *url*

  Specify the URL for the Web Server address. Web Services will be available at this address. A port can be specified on the URL, **http://server\[:port\]**. The default value is **http://.../**.

- **-f**

  Force creation of the WSDL file. Overwrite exiting file with the same name.

- **-I** *path*

  Add path option for the ASIS compilation step. This option can appear any number of time on the command line.

- **-noenum**

  Do not generate WSDL representation for Ada enumerations, map them to standard string.

- **-o** *file*

  Generate the WSDL document into *file*.

- **-q**

  Quiet mode (no output).

- **-s** *name*

  Specify the Web Service name for the WSDL document, by default the spec package's name is used.

- **-v**

  Verbose mode, display the parsed spec.

## BUGS

**ada2wsdl** does not handle constrained arrays in records.

**Unbounded\_String** are supported with full interoperability only inside a record.

Only unconstrained arrays are supported.

Arrays with multiple dimensions are not supported.

## SEE ALSO

[**awsres**(1)](/awsres/1.md), [**wsdl2aws**(1)](/wsdl2aws/1.md)

The Ada Web Server User's Guide in package libaws-doc.

## AUTHOR

**wsdl2aws** was written by Dmitriy Anisimkov \<anisimkov@yahoo.com\> and Pascal Obry \<p.obry@wanadoo.fr\> as part of the Ada Web Server.

This manual page was written by Ludovic Brenta \<ludovic.brenta@insalien.org\> for Debian GNU/Linux.