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by alufers 1500 days ago
Doesn't wsdl just expose the schema on the server?
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WSDL and OpenAPI/Swagger solve similar problems.

Roughly speaking: WSDL is to XML web services as OpenAPI is to REST

They both model the API and message structure of an API. AFAICT WSDL goes a little farther in that you can declare message sequences (I might be giving short shrift to OpenAPI here).

Short of “this requires oauth” I think you are right about openapi