SOAPMessage writeTo without attachment

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I use SOAPMessage.writeTo(OutputStream) to log web service messages. A problem is that it also writes attachments. It is space consuming and the binary attachments are not readable . Is there any way how to log the message without attachments, e.g. a wrapper? There must be a better solution than this one. ``` ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream(); message.writeTo(out); StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder(out.toString()); int indexOfAttachment = builder.indexOf("------="); if (indexOfAttachment != -1) { return builder.substring(0, indexOfAttachment); } return builder.toString(); ``` A sample message ```

Accepted Answer

There's actually a way to do this that is probably cleaner.

Here's my code :

```
// Get the Envelope Source 
Source src = message.getSOAPPart().getContent() ;

// Transform the Source into a StreamResult to get the XML
Transformer transformer = TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer();
transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.INDENT, "no");
StreamResult result = new StreamResult(new StringWriter());
transformer.transform(src, result);
String xmlString = result.getWriter().toString();
```

Then you can log the xmlString, it corresponds to the Envelope part only.

SOAPMessage writeTo without attachment

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