Soap Handler question

[Arjun Reddy]

Hi All,

I have written a soap handler for a web service I am calling. I have the log level set as fatal for handleFault method. How do I print the request message along with the fault message when a fault happens?

Thanks.

[Bosun Bello]

What about just logging it and the print that as you choose.

[Arjun Reddy]

Bosun Bello wrote:What about just logging it and the print that as you choose.

Hi,

Sorry, I did not understand. Currently I have the code as below. If you look at it, when there is a fault, logToSystemOut2 method is called and the fault (either inbound or outbound) is printed. I want to print the request messsage only if there is a fault. How can I do it?

public class SOAPLoggingHandler implements SOAPHandler {
    
    // change this to redirect output if desired
    private static PrintStream out = System.out;
    
    public Set getHeaders() {
        return null;
    }
    
    public boolean handleMessage(SOAPMessageContext smc) {
        logToSystemOut1(smc);
        return true;
    }
    
    public boolean handleFault(SOAPMessageContext smc) {
        logToSystemOut2(smc);
        return true;
    }
    
    // nothing to clean up
    public void close(MessageContext messageContext) {
    }
    
    /*
     * Check the MESSAGE_OUTBOUND_PROPERTY in the context
     * to see if this is an outgoing or incoming message.
     * Write a brief message to the print stream and
     * output the message. The writeTo() method can throw
     * SOAPException or IOException
     */
    private void logToSystemOut1(SOAPMessageContext smc) {
        Boolean outboundProperty = (Boolean)
            smc.get (MessageContext.MESSAGE_OUTBOUND_PROPERTY);
        
        if (outboundProperty.booleanValue()) {
            out.println("\nOutbound message:");
        } else {
            out.println("\nInbound message:");
        }
        
        SOAPMessage message = smc.getMessage();
        try {
            message.writeTo(out);
            out.println("");   // just to add a newline
        } catch (Exception e) {
            out.println("Exception in handler: " + e);
        }
    }

 /*
     * Check the MESSAGE_OUTBOUND_PROPERTY in the context
     * to see if this is an outgoing or incoming message.
     * Write a brief message to the print stream and
     * output the message. The writeTo() method can throw
     * SOAPException or IOException
     */
    private void logToSystemOut2(SOAPMessageContext smc) {
        Boolean outboundProperty = (Boolean)
            smc.get (MessageContext.MESSAGE_OUTBOUND_PROPERTY);
        
        if (outboundProperty.booleanValue()) {
            out.println("\nOutbound message:");
        } else {
            out.println("\nInbound message:");
        }
        
        SOAPMessage message = smc.getMessage();
        try {
            message.writeTo(out);
            out.println("");   // just to add a newline
        } catch (Exception e) {
            out.println("Exception in handler: " + e);
        }
    }
}

[William Brogden]

The problem is that by the time the error is generated, the actual request stream has been consumed by the parser and parser internals are pretty hard to get at.

Right off-hand I know of no way to get it back on the server side. You might use something like SOAPui or TCPMON on the client side to record ALL requests and later figure out which caused the error.

Bill

[Arjun Reddy]

William Brogden wrote:The problem is that by the time the error is generated, the actual request stream has been consumed by the parser and parser internals are pretty hard to get at.

Right off-hand I know of no way to get it back on the server side. You might use something like SOAPui or TCPMON on the client side to record ALL requests and later figure out which caused the error.

Bill

Thanks for replying.