How can I generate WADL for REST services

Question

I have a web application providing more than 30 REST services (using Jersey) to clients. Is it possible to automatically create a WADL document for my application?

I need this, so that I can have it configured in SoapUI for testing various scenarios and save it for later use.

Lauraine

Jersey will do that too. wikis.oracle.com/display/Jersey/WADL – Donia

if you are using jersey then url to wadl would be localhost:8080/applicationname/application.wadl – Moisten

Answer 1

If you are using Jersey then url to wadl would be something like

http://localhost:8080/applicationname/application.wadl

You may need to add the resource base into the url e.g.

http://localhost:8080/applicationname/resources/application.wadl

Donia

In jersy who will create this WADL, if it is automatically generated then what environment and API needed for this ? – Pasto

I think it needs to be specified as a parameter to your build system (e.g. in the pom.xml file for Maven). https://mcmap.net/q/411281/-wadl-generation-tool – Filberte

Answer 2

http://{host}:{port}/{context_root}/{resource}/application.wadl 

substitute values for host, port, context root and resource.

Tarttan

Answer 3

In the past I've used Enunciate (GitHub repository).

It's a build-time tool that generates Interface Definition Documents (WADL, WSDL, etc) automatically for you. It's really easy to integrate it in your Maven build.

Trigonometry

Yes, and it also integrates with Spring which separate well the processing layer (@Service) from the exposition layer (REST, SOAP). The enunciate documentation of the service is very well generated. – Buchan

The codehaus link is dead. The code is on GitHub github.com/stoicflame/enunciate and it links to the site enunciate.webcohesion.com – Ester