Not able to log complete SOAP message in SOAPHandler

java, jax-ws, soap, web-services

Solution

The problem is you are calling writeTo after the message is modified but you still print the old version (without any header change). I suggest you to use saveChanges method from SOAPMessage

abstract void saveChanges()

Updates this SOAPMessage object with all the changes that have been made to it.

And then try to call the method writeTo. let me know if that works.

I tried your code as:

EchoServiceImplService echoService = new EchoServiceImplService();
        HandlerResolver resolver = new HandlerResolver(){

            @Override
            public List<Handler> getHandlerChain(PortInfo portInfo){
                List<Handler> handlers = new ArrayList<Handler>();
                handlers.add(new LogMessageHandler());
                return handlers;
            }
        };
        echoService.setHandlerResolver(resolver);
        EchoService port = echoService.getEchoServiceImplPort();

And

public class LogMessageHandler implements SOAPHandler<SOAPMessageContext> {

    @Override
    public boolean handleMessage(SOAPMessageContext context){
        try {
            if ((Boolean) context.get(SOAPMessageContext.MESSAGE_OUTBOUND_PROPERTY)) {
                SOAPMessage message = context.getMessage();
                SOAPEnvelope envelope = message.getSOAPPart().getEnvelope();
                SOAPHeader header = envelope.getHeader();
                if (null == header)
                    header = envelope.addHeader();

                QName credential = new QName("http://soap.header.test.com", "Credential");
                SOAPHeaderElement headerElement = header.addHeaderElement(credential);
                QName username = new QName("username");
                headerElement.addAttribute(username, "ashok");
                QName password = new QName("password");
                headerElement.addAttribute(password, "123");

                message.writeTo(System.out);
                return true;
            }

        } catch (Exception e) {
            System.err.println("An error in handler occurs.");
        }
        return false;
    }

And I'm able to see the full SOAPMesssage at client side, just call the handler before send the request to the server.

<S:Envelope xmlns:S="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<S:Header>
   <Credential xmlns="http://soap.header.test.com" password="123" username="ashok"/></S:Header>
<S:Body>
   <ns2:echo xmlns:ns2="http://echo.soap.ws.jax.koitoer.com/">
       <arg0>Koitoer echo </arg0>
   </ns2:echo>
</S:Body>
</S:Envelope>

Problem

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