Example 1: soap vs rest
RESTful supports JSON, XML,
SOAP supports only XML
REST is faster than SOAP based web services
SOAP is more secure
REST allows a greater variety of data formats,
SOAP only allows XML.
1) SOAP
- Communication happens using XML only
- Request is sent to SOAP methods
- Documentation is in WSDL (Wizdal)
- Heavy, more secure, more stable
- getting less popular
2) REST API
- Communication happens using Json, XML
- Requests are sent to API methods/urls using
- Communication happens in HTTP(Internet)
- Lightweight, stable
- Easy to develop and automate
- very popular
Example 2: soap vs rest
RESTful:
- is architectural style
- stateless
- requires HTTP
- supports JSON, XML, HTML, CSV, plain text
- easy documentation and easy to understand
- efficient and faster
- less bandwidth
- less secure
- Uses JAX-RS API for security
SOAP:
- ss XML based protocol itself
- State or stateless
- Can work with HTTP, SMPT(Simple Mailing Transfer Protocol),
FTP(File Transfer Protocol)
- Only works with XML
- Documentation is complex and hard to understand
- Slower than REST
- More secure
- Uses JAX-WS API for security
- Platform and programming language independent
REST-Assured library helps us in testing our RESTful APIs easily.
It integrates seamlessly with TestNG and JUnit. JSON Path and XML Path
allows us to easily parse the response data and test specific elements.
Since it uses Hamcrest matchers, there are many options to match actual
result with expected data.
Example 3: python soap
This is Docs for Python Soap
https://docs.python-zeep.org/en/master/
Example 4: when to use soap api
Use the SOAP API to create, retrieve,
update or delete records, like accounts
, leads, and user-defined objects.
With more than 20 different calls,
you can also use the SOAP API to manage
passwords, perform searches, etc.
by using the SOAP API in any language
that supports web services.
Example 5: advantages of soap
SOAP is both platform and language independent.
SOAP separates the encoding and communications
protocol from the runtime environment.
Web service can retrieve or receive a SOAP
user data from a remote service, and the
source’s platform information is completely
independent of each other.
Everything can generate XML, from Perl
scripts through C++ code to J2EE app servers.
It uses XML to send and receive messages.
It uses standard internet HTTP protocol.
SOAP runs over HTTP; it eliminates
firewall problems. When protocol HTTP
is used as the protocol binding, an
RPC call will be automatically assigned
to an HTTP request, and the RPC response
will be assigned to an HTTP reply.
Compared to RMI, CORBA and DCOM, SOAP
is very easy to use.
SOAP acts as a protocol to move information
in a distributed and decentralized environment.
SOAP is independent of the transport protocol
and can be used to coordinate different protocols.
Example 6: difference between soap and rest
RESTful supports JSON, XML,
SOAP supports only XML
REST is faster than SOAP based web services
SOAP is more secure
REST allows a greater variety of data formats,
SOAP only allows XML.
1) SOAP
- Communication happens using XML only
- Request is sent to SOAP methods
- Documentation is in WSDL (Wizdal)
- Heavy, more secure, more stable
- getting less popular
2) REST API
- Communication happens using Json, XML
- Requests are sent to API methods/urls using
- Communication happens in HTTP(Internet)
- Lightweight, stable
- Easy to develop and automate
- very popular