How to print SOAP response as XML in AXIS 1...

[Raffi McGregor]

I am using Axis (not Axis 2) in a web service client. Everything works fine in the code below but I am trying to get the response as an XML string. The service class does not provide a method to get the SOAP response part as a XML string.

//locate service
FundEditorServiceImplServiceLocator locator = new FundEditorServiceImplServiceLocator();
FundEditorService service = locator.getFundEditorServiceImplPort(); 

//invoke service
FundInfo response = service.getFundInfo(fundInfoSpec);

//want to get response as XML here!!

    

Thank you

[R Srini]

Hi Raffi,

I have no Axis experience, but I did some digging. Here is what I found:

Axis user guide
The message context from which you can get everything else
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The following should work. Please give it a try.

//org.apache.axis.MessageContext
MessageContext context = MessageContext.getCurrentContext();
//javax.xml.soap.SOAPMessage
SOAPMessage message = context.getMessage();
// print the message to stdout
message.writeTo(System.out);

Srini

[Raffi McGregor]

Hi Srini,

thanks, I found that code yesterday.
I also figured out how to do it using handlers on the client:

Put this file in your client's JVM working directory

  
<deployment
xmlns="http://xml.apache.org/axis/wsdd/"
xmlns:java="http://xml.apache.org/axis/wsdd/providers/java">

	<globalConfiguration>
		<requestFlow/>	
		<responseFlow>
			<handler type="java:com.ofi.efm.events.poc.ws.SOAPResponseHandler"/>	
		</responseFlow>
	</globalConfiguration>

	<transport name="http" pivot="java:org.apache.axis.transport.http.HTTPSender"/>

</deployment>  

SOAPResponseHandler.java

  
public class SOAPResponseHandler extends BasicHandler {

	public void invoke(MessageContext msgContext) throws AxisFault {

		try {
			String response = msgContext.getResponseMessage().getSOAPPartAsString();
			System.out.println(response); 

		} catch (Exception e) {
			// capture and wrap any exception.
			throw new AxisFault( "Failed!");
		}

	}

}