SalesForce Generation of APEX code

Creating an Apex Class from a WSDL

Available in: Unlimited, Developer, Enterprise, and Database.com Editions

User Permissions Needed
To define, edit, delete, set security, set version settings, show dependencies, and run tests for Apex classes:	“Author Apex”

An Apex class can be automatically generated from a WSDL document that is stored on a local hard drive or network. Creating a class by consuming a WSDL document allows developers to make callouts to the external Web service in their Apex.

Note

Use Outbound Messaging to handle integration solutions when possible. Use callouts to third-party Web services only when necessary.

To access this functionality:

1. In the application, click Your Name | Setup | Develop | Apex Classes.
2. Click Generate from WSDL.
3. Click Browse to navigate to a WSDL document on your local hard drive or network, or type in the full path. This WSDL document is the basis for the Apex class you are creating.
   Note

   

   The WSDL document that you specify might contain a SOAP endpoint location that references an outbound port.

   For security reasons, Salesforce restricts the outbound ports you may specify to one of the following:

   • 80: This port only accepts HTTP connections.
   • 443: This port only accepts HTTPS connections.
   • 1024–66535 (inclusive): These ports accept HTTP or HTTPS connections.
4. Click Parse WSDL to verify the WSDL document contents. The application generates a default class name for each namespace in the WSDL document and reports any errors. Parsing will fail if the WSDL contains schema types or schema constructs that are not supported by Apex classes, or if the resulting classes exceed 1 million character limit on Apex classes. For example, the Salesforce SOAP API WSDL cannot be parsed.
5. Modify the class names as desired. While you can save more than one WSDL namespace into a single class by using the same class name for each namespace, Apex classes can be no more than 1 million characters total.
6. Click Generate Apex. The final page of the wizard shows which classes were successfully generated, along with any errors from other classes. The page also provides a link to view successfully generated code.

The successfully-generated Apex class includes stub and type classes for calling the third-party Web service represented by the WSDL document. These classes allow you to call the external Web service from Apex. For an example, see the Force.com Apex Code Developer's Guide.

Note the following about the generated Apex:

• If a WSDL document contains an Apex reserved word, the word is appended with _x when the Apex class is generated. For example, limit in a WSDL document converts to limit_x in the generated Apex class. For a list of reserved words, see the Force.com Apex Code Developer's Guide.
• If an operation in the WSDL has an output message with more than one element, the generated Apex wraps the elements in an inner class. The Apex method that represents the WSDL operation returns the inner class instead of the individual elements.

See Also:

Defining Apex Classes

 

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