What is the point in a WSDL with a rest based service?

Question

If REST based web services are as simple as GETing and POSTing to a url and parsing the response wht exactly do we need a wsdl? Whats the point. I understand that when using

Answer 1

There's no point. WSDL is just a standardized description of what a service exposes and how can be invoked. You don't need WSDL, but you need some way of documenting what can be done with your service, so that clients know how to invoke it.