Can Swagger be used for SOAP?

Question

I was exploring Swagger and I must acknowledge I'm loving it.

I understand Swagger is primarily for RESTful web services, but I was wondering if we can make it work with SOAP web services as well. May be translate SOAP based web services to RESTful? Or simply call SOAP based services via Swagger UI? Some hack? Has anyone done it?

Answer 1

Based on the present spec, I do not think so. It would not be easily possible to mention various aspects of a WSDL in swagger

To name a few:

1. PortTypes
2. Schemas and namespaces of request and response messages
3. SOAP encodings (RPC/Literal etc.)

Answer 2

online "translate SOAP based web services to RESTful" is what exactly DreamFactory does. Open Source API management tool based on Swagger. Here you can read about SOAP-to-REST functionality.