How to alter xml output of SOAP reponse

Hi,
I’m using Axis2 to provide a web service, but it would helpful if I could customize the SOAP response.
Right now I’m getting the response as mentioned below, But I have to eliminate the tags <ns:getReportDetailsResponse> and <ns:return>

<ns:getReportDetailsResponse xmlns:ns="//zzz.com/zzz-ws/zzz-ws/xsd">
<ns:return>
<root>
.
.
.
</root>
</ns:return>
</ns:getReportDetailsResponse>

Does anybody have idea about how to do it?

Thanks in advance!

i have added wsdl, xsd, and service.xml details below,

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<wsdl:definitions xmlns:sws="//zzz.com/zzz-ws/zzz-ws" xmlns:soap12="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap12/" xmlns:http="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/http/" xmlns:mime="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/mime/" xmlns:ns="//zzz.com/zzz-ws/zzz-ws/xsd" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/" xmlns:wsdl="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/" xmlns:swr="//zzz.com/zzz-ws/zzz-ws/schemas/zzzwsResponse" targetNamespace="//zzz.com/zzz-ws/zzz-ws">
	<wsdl:types>
		<xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" attributeFormDefault="qualified" elementFormDefault="qualified" targetNamespace="//zzz.com/zzz-ws/zzz-ws/xsd">
		
			<xs:element name="getReportDetails">
				<xs:complexType>
					<xs:sequence>
						<xs:element name="eid" nillable="true" type="xs:string"/>
					    <xs:element name="userName" nillable="true" type="xs:string"/>
					    <xs:element name="dataSample" nillable="true" type="xs:string"/>
					    <xs:element name="sampleDef" nillable="true" type="xs:string"/>
						<xs:element name="reportType" nillable="true" type="xs:string"/>
					</xs:sequence>
				</xs:complexType>
			</xs:element>
		</xs:schema>			
	</wsdl:types>

<wsdl:message name="getReportDetailsMessage">
		<wsdl:part name="part1" element="ns:getReportDetails"/>
	</wsdl:message>

<wsdl:portType name="DataServicePortType">
		<wsdl:operation name="getReportDetails">
			<wsdl:input message="sws:getReportDetailsMessage" xmlns:wsaw="http://www.w3.org/2006/05/addressing/wsdl" wsaw:Action="ns:getReportDetails"/>
			<wsdl:output message="sws:ResponseMessage" xmlns:wsaw="http://www.w3.org/2006/05/addressing/wsdl" wsaw:Action="ns:getReportDetails"/>
		</wsdl:operation>
	</wsdl:portType>

<wsdl:binding name="DataServiceSOAP11Binding" type="sws:DataServicePortType">
		<soap:binding style="document" transport="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/http"/>
		
		<wsdl:operation name="getReportDetails">
			<soap:operation soapAction="ns:getReportDetails" style="document"/>
			<wsdl:input>
				<soap:body use="literal"/>
			</wsdl:input>
			<wsdl:output>
				<soap:body use="literal"/>
			</wsdl:output>
		</wsdl:operation>	
	</wsdl:binding>
	
	<wsdl:binding name="DataServiceSOAP12Binding" type="sws:DataServicePortType">
		<soap12:binding transport="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/http" style="document"/>
		
		<wsdl:operation name="getReportDetails">
			<soap12:operation soapAction="ns:getReportDetails" style="document"/>
			<wsdl:input>
				<soap12:body use="literal"/>
			</wsdl:input>
			<wsdl:output>
				<soap12:body use="literal"/>
			</wsdl:output>
		</wsdl:operation>
	</wsdl:binding>
	
	<wsdl:service name="DataService">
		<wsdl:port name="DataServiceSOAP11port" binding="sws:DataServiceSOAP11Binding">
			<soap:address location="//zzz.com/zzz-ws/zzz-ws/services/DataService"/>
		</wsdl:port>
		<wsdl:port name="DataServiceSOAP12port" binding="sws:DataServiceSOAP12Binding">
			<soap12:address location="//zzz.com/zzz-ws/zzz-ws/services/DataService"/>
		</wsdl:port>
	</wsdl:service>
	
</wsdl:definitions>

<service name="DataService" targetNamespace="https://localhost:8080/zzz-ws/schemas/zzzResponse" >
    <description>zzz web services</description>
    <parameter name="ServiceObjectSupplier" locked="false">
        org.apache.axis2.extensions.spring.receivers.SpringServletContextObjectSupplier
    </parameter>
    
    <parameter name="SpringBeanName" locked="false">axis2ServiceEndpoint</parameter>
    <operation name="getReportDetails" />
    
    <messageReceivers>
          <messageReceiver mep="http://www.w3.org/2004/08/wsdl/in-only" 
                           class="org.apache.axis2.rpc.receivers.RPCInOnlyMessageReceiver"/>
          <messageReceiver mep="http://www.w3.org/2004/08/wsdl/in-out"  
                           class="org.apache.axis2.rpc.receivers.RPCMessageReceiver"/>
    </messageReceivers>
    
</service>

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsd:schema xmlns:dop="https://localhost:8080/zzz-ws/schemas/zzzwsResponse" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" targetNamespace="https://localhost:8080/zzz-ws/schemas/zzzwsResponse">
	<xsd:annotation>
		<xsd:documentation xml:lang="eng">Output XML schema </xsd:documentation>
	</xsd:annotation>

<xsd:element name="root">
		<xsd:complexType>
			<xsd:sequence>
				<xsd:element name="dataC" type="dop:DataContextType" minOccurs="0"/>
				<xsd:element name="meta" type="dop:MetadataType"/>
				<xsd:element name="cData" type="dop:DataType" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
			</xsd:sequence>
		</xsd:complexType>
	</xsd:element>
	
	<xsd:complexType name="MetadataType">
		..................
	</xsd:complexType>	
	.............................
	
</xsd:schema>

A similar thing bugged me for a while and still does ;-) – the relation between the WSDL document and the SOAP one.

When is SOAP a good idea in a project says -

That's basically it. So, the SOAP runtime supplies all the code for the demarshalling of the request, invoking an adapter and then marshalling the response packet.

So, the SOAP runtime is responsible for the construction of the SOAP response.

Hope it helps.

Hi Ranjit,

Welcome to the Ranch.
In future, while posting code, please use the code tags.
I have edited your existing post. As you can see it is much more readable and easier to understand.
http://faq.javaranch.com/java/UseCodeTags