Apache CXF Client for Dynamic Endpoints

Question

I'm now using Apache CXF as a web services client for a .NET service to get around NTLM authentication. It works great, but I'm wondering why I can't seem to be able to set the web service target endpoint. CXF seems to want the WSDL at runtime for some strange reason - not sure. It takes the physical endpoint from the WSDL, which works fine in test environments I guess, but at deployment time it's sure to change.

Here's some code to demonstrate:

        MyWebServices service = new MyWebServices ();
        MyWebServicesSoap port = service.getMyWebServicesSoap12();

        // Turn off chunking so that NTLM can occur
        Client client = ClientProxy.getClient(port);
        HTTPConduit http = (HTTPConduit) client.getConduit();
        HTTPClientPolicy httpClientPolicy = new HTTPClientPolicy();
        httpClientPolicy.setConnectionTimeout(36000);
        httpClientPolicy.setAllowChunking(false);
        http.setClient(httpClientPolicy);

        port.doSomethingUseful();

Again, there is no place that I can see in the CXF client API that allows me to set the service endpoint. Not that I can see anyway. In this case, the target is http://localhost/integration/webservices/mywebservices.asmx, but I could be anywhere. Surely this pedestrian problem is solved somehow?

Kimono

Answer 1

Try the following:

MyWebServicesSoap port = service.getMyWebServicesSoap12();
BindingProvider provider = (BindingProvider) port;
provider.getRequestContext().put(BindingProvider.ENDPOINT_ADDRESS_PROPERTY, endpoint); 

Alternatively, MyWebServices might have other getXXX methods that take a URL for the WSDL location

Defense

In the MyServices class, are there other methods that will return a port that accept a URL parameter? Can you edit your post to paste the signature of that class? – Defense

Seeing how the CXF team do things always makes me feel better about my own needlessly over-engineered code :) – Patent

... aaaand I'm back here ... for the same GD* info. Unfortunately I can only give points once :) – Patent

What kind of object is "endpoint" ? A String containing the URL? A special EndPoint (or some similar class) instance? – Freetown

From another example endpoint looks to be a simple String containing the URL for the new endpoint. – Dictionary

Answer 2

Working in cxf 2.6.1

Client client = ClientProxy.getClient(port);
client.getRequestContext().put(Message.ENDPOINT_ADDRESS, "http://some-valid-endpoint") ;

Freddie

Thank you. You just saved me a day. This is the way to do it if you would like to use the generated factory class and change the end point address dynamically. – Abject

Answer 3

This worked for me.

String customerEndPoint = "https://localhost:8080/customerService/v1"

customerWebService = service.getCustomerWebServicePort();

((BindingProvider) customerWebService).getRequestContext()
                        .put(BindingProvider.ENDPOINT_ADDRESS_PROPERTY,
                                customerEndPoint);

Decease