How to get SOAP message while using a Axis 1.4 wsdl2java-generated client

Question

This is probably an easy question for anyone with any moderate expertise with web services using Apache Axis.

I have a web service client that was generated by wsdl2java in Axis 1.4. I am writing unit tests that need to access the actual SOAP message itself, and do a comparison to the client side java classes which are generated by Axis. (don't ask)

How can I retrieve the actual SOAP message from a response from the service?

From what I can gather from searching around is that I have to get the MessageContext. I have tried something along these lines...

MessageContext mc = MessageContext.getCurrentContext(); String message = mc.getCurrentMessage().getSOAPPartAsString();

But mc is null in this case....

Any help is appreciated!

Fahey

Answer 1

This is how it's done.

http://users.skynet.be/pascalbotte/rcx-ws-doc/jaxrpchandler.htm

Fahey

Could you please expand the answer? In addition to possible link rot in the future (yay, 6 years!), the page at the link has a lot of code and it's not immediately apparent "how it's done". So a quick summary here with the relevant code snippet only (not an entire wall of code) will be very helpful! – Skater

The link is broken, can you update the answer? – Tile

Answer 2

When _call object is filled calling the line below gives it.

String request=_call.getMessageContext().getRequestMessage() .getSOAPPart().getEnvelope().toString();

For response use the below one

_call.getMessageContext().getResponseMessage() .getSOAPPart().getEnvelope().toString()

Call is a org.apache.axis.client.Call as you know.

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